English Dictionary

parallelism

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpaɹəlɛlɪz(ə)m/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 修辞法

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

日本語の意味

平行状態（互いに平行に存在する状態） / 並行性（方向、傾向、性質などが調和・一致している状態） / 類似や対応（似た性質や関係性がある状態）

The engineer inspected every beam for parallelism before certifying the bridge's safety.

技師は橋の安全性を認証する前に、すべての梁が平行性を保っているかを点検した。

意味（1）

The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.

意味（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.

意味（3）

A parallel position; the relation of parallels.

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(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.

意味（6）

(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.

意味（7）

(biology) Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.

意味（8）

(computing) The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.

parallelisms （ plural ）