Broad definition: The 'ism' in parallelism denotes the condition of being a parallel behavior or similar alignment. Parallelism refers to common features, structures, and their parallel states of development across a wide range of disciplines and sciences. |
Examples of Parallelism:
In biology, parallelism can be used to describe things like parallel evolution of morphologies and lifestyles. It's also used to describe behavioral traits in diversified species. In literature: see parallel structure In geometry: parallel lines. In history, sociology and archaeology: The parallel development of social, cultural or technological events and/ or incidents in which a lineage of events is said to be parallel. https://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/parallelism.html https://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/parstruc.html https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/gram_parallelism.html https://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/teaching-scratch/how-do-you-explain-parallelism-and-events |