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Parsimony may refer to:
- The law of parsimony, or Occam's razor, a problem-solving principle
- Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics), an optimality criterion in phylogenetics
- Parsimony Press, a fine press brand ran by typographer Robert Norton
- Parsimonious reduction, a type of reduction in complexity theory
