parallelism

noun8

1. •
   The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
2. •
   The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.

   • Plutarch (c. AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries. — 1946
3. •
   A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
4. •
   (rhetoric) The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
5. •
   The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
6. •
   Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
7. •
   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.
8. •
   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.