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parallelism

noun par·al·lel·ism \ˈpa-rə-ˌle-ˌli-zəm, -lə-ˌli-\

: the fact of being similar in development or form

Full Definition of PARALLELISM

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:  the quality or state of being parallel
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:  repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect
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:  a theory that mind and matter accompany one another but are not causally related
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:  the independent development of a similar trait in related species or lineages following divergence from a common ancestor
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First Known Use of PARALLELISM

1610

Other Mathematics and Statistics Terms

abscissa, denominator, divisor, equilateral, exponent, hypotenuse, logarithm, oblique, radii, rhomb

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Medical Dictionary

parallelism

noun par·al·lel·ism \ˈpar-ə-ˌlel-ˌiz-əm, -ləl-\

Medical Definition of PARALLELISM

:  a philosophical or psychological doctrine that there is a one-to-one correspondence between events in the mind and events in the brain but that the two sets of events exist without interacting in a causal way—called also psychophysical parallelism

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