Meanings
present singular third person parallelizes · participle present parallelizing · participle past parallelized · past parallelized · alternative parallelise
- To make parallel (to each other).
Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.
- computingTo make to execute in parallel.
The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.
1 more example
We present a general method to parallelize branch & bound algorithms on transputer networks and an application of this method to solve symmetric traveling salesman problems by a best first branch & bound strategy.
1992, Wouter Joosen, Elie Milgrom, Parallel Computing: From Theory to Sound Practice, Barcelona, Spain, page 598 - To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.
They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.
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Translations
Catalan paral·lelitzar
- paral·lelitzarmake parallel
Finnish rinnakkaistaa
- rinnakkaistaamake parallel
French paralléliser
- parallélisermake parallel
German parallelisieren
- parallelisierenmake parallel
Italian parallelizzare
- parallelizzaremake parallel
Polish zrównoleglić
- zrównoleglićmake parallel
Portuguese paralelizar
- paralelizarmake parallel
Spanish paralelizar
- paralelizarmake parallel
Swedish parallellisera
- parallelliseramake parallel
Cite this entry
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