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Noun: parallelism  'per-u,le,li-zum or 'pa-ru-lu,li-zum [N. Amer], 'pa-ru,le,li-zum or 'pa-ru-lu,li-zum [Brit]
  1. Similarity or analogy between different things
    "There's a striking parallelism between the two historical events";
    - correspondence
     
  2. Use of similar grammatical structures or ideas in successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or lines
    "The speech used parallelism: 'of the people, by the people, for the people'"
     
  3. Use of parallel computing
    "The researchers employed parallelism to speed up their data analysis"

Derived forms: parallelisms

Type of: similarity

Encyclopedia: Parallelism, Psycho-Physical