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   parallelism

   /ˈparəlɛlɪz(ə)m/

   noun

   • 1. the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way: "Greek thinkers who believed in the parallelism of microcosm and macrocosm"
   • ▪ the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, metre, meaning, etc.: "parallelism suggests a connection of meaning through an echo of form"
   • ▪ the use of parallel processing: "massive parallelism gives neural networks a high degree of fault tolerance"

   Derivatives

   • 1. parallelistic adjective

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • P

     3

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • S

     1

   • M

     3

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