parallel
n. countablen. a similarity between two different things or situations. You use this when you want to show how two separate events are like each other.
n. a point of similarity or correspondence between two distinct things, people, or events. Often used to draw comparisons between historical periods or different systems of thought.
There is a clear parallel between these two stories.
Economists often draw a parallel between the current market crash and the financial crisis of the late 1920s.
While the two cultures developed on opposite sides of the globe, historians have noted a striking parallel in their early agricultural techniques and social hierarchies.
From Middle French parallèle and its etymon Latin parallēlus, parallēlos. The verb is from the noun. By surface analysis, par- + all- + -el.
Commonly used with the verb 'draw' and the preposition 'between'.