Usually means: Simultaneous execution of multiple tasks.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. parallelism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. parallelism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parallelism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parallelism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parallelism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parallelism, parallelism: Wordnik
  7. parallelism: Wiktionary
  8. parallelism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. parallelism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. parallelism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. parallelism: Dictionary.com
  12. Parallelism (computing), Parallelism (geometry), Parallelism (grammar), Parallelism (music), Parallelism (philosophy), Parallelism (rhetoric), Parallelism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Parallelism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. parallelism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. parallelism: Rhymezone
  16. Parallelism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. parallelism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. parallelism: Free Dictionary
  19. parallelism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. parallelism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. parallelism: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Parallelism: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  4. PARALLELISM: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parallelism: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parallelism: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Parallelism (computing), parallelism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  3. parallelism: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parallelism: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Parallelism: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. parallelism, parallelism, parallelism, parallelism: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
noun:  The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
noun:  A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
noun:  (rhetoric, 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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (law) 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.
noun:  (biology) Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
noun:  (computing) The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.

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