parallel action
Film
noun
An editing technique and narrative device for showing two simultaneous events by repeatedly cutting between two pieces of action which are shown concurrently.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Karel Reisz (1926–2002), film and theatre director.
- bite one's lip
- bite one's nails
- bite one's tongue
- bite (or snap) someone's head off
- biter
- biternate
- bit error rate
- bite-size
- bite-sized
- bite someone's head off
- bite something back
- bite the big one
- bite the bullet
- bite the dust
- bite the hand that feeds one
- bitewing
- Bithynia
- biting
- bitingly
- biting midge
- bitmap
- BITNET
- bit of fluff (or skirt or stuff)
- bit of rough
- bitonal