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Word: parallelism
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Noun:
- Agreement or similarity; resemblance; correspondence; analogy; likeness.
- A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
- biology Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
- grammar The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
- legal 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.
- philosophy 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.
- The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
Source: Wiktionary
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