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parallelism

[par-uh-le-liz-uhm, -luh-liz-] / ˈpær ə lɛˌlɪz əm, -ləˌlɪz- /


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This "higher-dimensional" processing is enabled by exploiting multiple different radio frequencies to encode the data, propelling parallelism to a level far beyond that previously achieved.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023

The team anticipates further enhancement in computing parallelism in the future, by exploiting more degrees of freedom of light, such as polarization and mode multiplexing.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023

“There is no hard and fast rule on number of reiterations needed to produce retention. Concise, vividly phrased messages that employ parallelism and alliteration are more readily remembered.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

There’s a satisfying parallelism to the dynamics between the two pairs — the chemistry, the witty repartee, the heartbreak one character offers, intentionally or unintentionally, to another.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

Figures of antithesis or parallelism may serve to frame or advance an argument; apoplanesis* to avoid one.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

"We are talking about people who did not simply draw lines, but organized them according to recurring principles -- parallelisms, grids, rotations and systematic repetitions: a visual grammar in embryo."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

I think any good historian should eschew simple parallelisms, but I think, in this instance, there actually is a pertinent historical lesson.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2016

Under Mussolini, his gift for such parallelisms led first to his "quarantine" in Italy, then his expulsion.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is just another of those unexpected parallelisms between life and literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is curious, by the way, that the structure of the two shows many marked parallelisms; only the tender pity which characterises Dante’s treatment of the former is wholly lacking in the latter.

From Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler




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