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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parallelism \Par"al*lel*ism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to place side by side, or parallel: cf. F. parall['e]lisme.]
The quality or state of being parallel.
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Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
A close parallelism of thought and incident.
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Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.:
At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
--Judg. v. 27.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Greek parallelismos, from parallelizein (see parallel).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character. 2 The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy. 3 A parallel position; the relation of parallels. 4 (context rhetoric grammar English) The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect. 5 (context philosophy English) The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind. 6 (context legal English) In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so. 7 (context biology English) Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor. 8 (context computing English) The use of parallel methods in hardware or software.
WordNet
n. similarity by virtue of correspondence [syn: correspondence]
Wikipedia
Parallelism may refer to:
- Angle of parallelism, in hyperbolic geometry, the angle at one vertex of a right hyperbolic triangle that has two hyperparallel sides
- Conscious parallelism, price-fixing between competitors in an oligopoly that occurs without an actual spoken agreement between the parties
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Parallelism (computing), the simultaneous execution on multiple processors of different parts of a program
- In the analysis of parallel algorithms, the maximum possible speedup of a computation
- Parallelism (evolution), the independent emergence of a similar trait in different, but closely related species
- Parallelism, in geometry, the property of parallel lines
- Parallelism (grammar), a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses
- Parallelism (philosophy), a philosophical concept
- Parallelism (rhetoric), the chief rhetorical device of Biblical poetry in Hebrew
- Psychophysical parallelism, the theory that the conscious and nervous processes vary concomitantly
- Parallel harmony/ doubling, or harmonic parallelism, in music
In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. The application of parallelism improves writing style and readability, and is thought to make sentences easier to process.
Parallelism is often achieved using antithesis, anaphora, asyndeton, climax, epistrophe, and symploce.
Parallelism means giving two or more parts of one or more sentences a similar form to create a definite pattern, a concept and method closely related to the grammatical idea of parallel construction or structure, which can also be called parallelism.
Parallelism as a rhetorical device is used in many languages and cultures around the world in poetry, epics, songs, written prose and speech, from the folk level to the professional. It is very often found in Biblical poetry and in proverbs in general.
In parallelism, mental events and physical events are perfectly coordinated by God; so that when a mental event such as Sally's decision to walk across the room occurs, simultaneously Sally's body heads across the room, in the absence of a direct cause-effect relation between mind and body. Mental and physical events are just perfectly coordinated by God, either in advance (as per Gottfried Leibniz's idea of pre-established harmony) or at the time (as in the occasionalism of Nicolas Malebranche).
Usage examples of "parallelism".
The idea would have given him a chuckle in spite of his scholarly delvings into feminine psychology and those brilliant studies in the parallelisms of primitive superstition and modem neurosis that had already won him a certain professional fame.
Chapter VIII Hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication -- Laws governing the sterility of hybrids -- Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences -- Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing -- Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal -- Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility -- Summary.
As the late Edward Forbes often insisted, there is a striking parallelism in the laws of life throughout time and space: the laws governing the succession of forms in past times being nearly the same with those governing at the present time the differences in different areas.
In the several successive palaeozoic formations of Russia, Western Europe and North America, a similar parallelism in the forms of life has been observed by several authors: so it is, according to Lyell, with the several European and North American tertiary deposits.
Even if the few fossil species which are common to the Old and New Worlds be kept wholly out of view, the general parallelism in the successive forms of life, in the stages of the widely separated palaeozoic and tertiary periods, would still be manifest, and the several formations could be easily correlated.
As members of distinct classes have often been adapted by successive slight modifications to live under nearly similar circumstances,--to inhabit for instance the three elements of land, air, and water,--we can perhaps understand how it is that a numerical parallelism has sometimes been observed between the sub-groups in distinct classes.
The idea would have given him a chuckle in spite of his scholarly delvings into feminine psychology and those brilliant studies in the parallelisms of primitive superstition and modem neurosis that had already won him a certain professional fame.
Psycho-physical parallelism is the theory that mental and physical events each have causes in their own sphere, but run on side by side owing to the fact that every state of the brain coexists with a definite state of the mind, and vice versa.
And so numerous are the recorded troubles in insane asylums that only a miracle can have stopped the medical fraternity from noting strange parallelisms and drawing mystified conclusions.
If there is to be parallelism, it is easy to prove by mathematical logic that the causation in physical and psychical matters must be of the same sort, and it is impossible that mnemic causation should exist in psychology but not in physics.
The modern doctrine of psychophysical parallelism is not appreciably different from this theory of the Cartesian school.