parallelism

 
Pronunciation: /ˈparəlɛlɪzəm/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 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 [count noun]: the parallelisms are reinforced by frequent alliteration
  • Computing the use of parallel processing: massive parallelism gives neural networks a high degree of fault tolerance

Derivatives

parallelistic

adjective