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  2. Parallelism (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. [1] The application of parallelism affects readability and may make texts easier to process. [2]

  3. Parallel syntax - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, parallel syntax (also known as parallel construction, parallel structure, and parallelism) is a rhetorical device that consists of repetition among adjacent sentences or clauses. The repeated sentences or clauses provide emphasis to a central theme or idea the author is trying to convey. [ 1 ]

  4. Parallel structures - Wikipedia

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    Parallel structures may refer to: 38th parallel structures , a series of carboniferous craters of the United States, approximately lying on the 38th parallel north Parallelism (grammar) , a way to organize parts of a sentence.

  5. Parallelism (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    The following sentences and verses possess "similarity in structure" in words and phrases: She tried to make the law clear, precise and equitable. [2] In the quote above, the compounded adjectives serve as parallel elements and support the noun "law". Her purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the ...

  6. Parallel state - Wikipedia

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    The "parallel state" is a term coined by American historian Robert Paxton [1] to describe a collection of organizations or institutions that are state-like in their organization, management and structure, but are not officially part of the legitimate state or government. [2]

  7. Holonomy - Wikipedia

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    Hol(ω) ⊂ U(n) if and only if M admits a covariantly constant (or parallel) projective pure spinor field. If M is a spin manifold, then Hol(ω) ⊂ SU(n) if and only if M admits at least two linearly independent parallel pure spinor fields. In fact, a parallel pure spinor field determines a canonical reduction of the structure group to SU(n).

  8. Antithesis - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, antithesis is a figure of speech involving the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure. [7] The term "antithesis" in rhetoric goes back to the 4th century BC, for example Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1410a, in which he gives a series of ...

  9. Similarity (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Similar figures. In Euclidean geometry, two objects are similar if they have the same shape, or if one has the same shape as the mirror image of the other.More precisely, one can be obtained from the other by uniformly scaling (enlarging or reducing), possibly with additional translation, rotation and reflection.