as in similarity
the quality or state of having many qualities in common
the striking parallelism between the two crimes got police to thinking that they were committed by the same mastermind
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Recent Examples of parallelism
By reducing tensor parallelism from eight-way to four-way, each GPU performed more computation locally rather than coordinating across the full server.
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Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
This parallelism may be a hint as to why spatial expressions are used widely in a social context.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
This is not to defend Cook, but rather to illustrate the parallelism and hypocrisy of the rule of law being subordinated to the law of the ruler.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
StarCore’s architectures used a long instruction word architecture that encoded multiple, independent operations in a single instruction in order to exploit parallelism in DSP code.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2025
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Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
This parallelism may be a hint as to why spatial expressions are used widely in a social context.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
This is not to defend Cook, but rather to illustrate the parallelism and hypocrisy of the rule of law being subordinated to the law of the ruler.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
StarCore’s architectures used a long instruction word architecture that encoded multiple, independent operations in a single instruction in order to exploit parallelism in DSP code.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parallelism
Noun
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The circumstances bear striking similarities to the Dyson case.—
Anna Bryher,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Mar. 2026
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Karma Brown explores the similarities between art conservation and fiction writing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The administration may have gained confidence from the successful operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January, Davis said, but the geography, military capability and strategic depth of Iran bear little resemblance to the Caracas raid.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
26 Mar. 2026
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Due to its rapid changes in frequency, the Bloop bore some resemblance to marine animal sounds.—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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