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]
- Similarity or analogy between different things
"There's a striking parallelism between the two historical events";
- correspondence
- 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'"
- Use of parallel computing
"The researchers employed parallelism to speed up their data analysis"
Derived forms: parallelisms
Type of: similarity
Encyclopedia: Parallelism, Psycho-Physical