Biology
« ‘Hybrid’: offspring of parents that differ in genetically determined traits.
The parents may be of different species, genera, or (rarely) families. The
term hybrid, therefore, has a wider application than the terms mongrel
or crossbreed, which usually refer to animals or plants resulting from a
cross between two races, breeds, strains, or varieties of the same species
» Encyclopaedia Britannica (2018)
Social sciences
« ‘Hybridity’ has been used by authors in the social sciences, literary, artistic,
and cultural studies to designate processes in which discrete social
practices or structures, that existed in separate ways, combine to generate
new structures, objects, and practices in which the preceding elements
mix » García-Canclini N. (2001)
Architecture
In architecture, ‘hybridity’ is the mix of different architectural cells generating
a new unit. Not only the physical characteristics, but also the unbuilt
elements are hybridised and create a new identity resulting from the existing
architecture.
Urbanism
At an urban scale, the ‘hybrid’ pattern result from the mix of specific urban
fabrics or blocs. One element mingling with another one. After the
process traces of the previous patterns remain visible.