FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

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

n The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.

n A parallel position; the relation of parallels.

n (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.

n (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.

n (legal) 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.

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