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
To begin with Henry Sugar and end with Poison, which debuts last, is to grapple with an unsettling parallelism.
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Vulture, 29 Sep. 2023
Level 2 introduces variables, sensor values, units, flow control statements, arithmetic operations, recursion, and parallelism.
—Julian Da Silva Gillig, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Nov. 2016
While adding more hardware can increase capacity and performance, the real magic of what Pure has delivered is in its software, PurityFB, which exploits the parallelism inherent in a blade architecture by distributing state and protocol handling equally across all available resources.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 9 June 2022
That's inefficient because modern processors can do many calculations at the same time by using multiple cores on each chip, and there is parallelism built into each core as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
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Vulture, 29 Sep. 2023
Level 2 introduces variables, sensor values, units, flow control statements, arithmetic operations, recursion, and parallelism.
—Julian Da Silva Gillig, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Nov. 2016
While adding more hardware can increase capacity and performance, the real magic of what Pure has delivered is in its software, PurityFB, which exploits the parallelism inherent in a blade architecture by distributing state and protocol handling equally across all available resources.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 9 June 2022
That's inefficient because modern processors can do many calculations at the same time by using multiple cores on each chip, and there is parallelism built into each core as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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