parallelism

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.
  2. noun Likeness, correspondence, or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency.
  3. noun Grammar The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.
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  • In fact, massive parallelism is the cause of the complexity in everything science is not able to do well today.
  • In that long-ago Analog article and, in more detail, in Engines of Creation, we were given another vision of parallelism: the universal assembler. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • Suffice to say that the parallelism is astonishing. —  Antiwar.com Original
  • Microsoft highlighted its support of emerging technologies such as parallelism, the new Windows Azure services platform and Windows 7. —  Application Development Trends - News
  • We have only to follow out the two lives in detail in order to see that all objections to the parallelism are futile The birth of Buddha is announced by a white elephant, which descends from heaven and declares to the queen, Maya, that she will bring forth a divine man, who "will attune all beings to love and friendship, and will unite them in a close alliance." —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
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  1. = French parallélisme = Spanish paralelismo = Portuguese Italian parallelismo, from Middle Greek παραλληλισμός, a comparing of parallels, from παραλληλίζειν, place side by side: see parallelize.
 

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