parallelize

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verb

To make parallel (to each other).

“Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.”

UncommonScrabble 22

Meanings

verbparallelize (third-person singular simple present parallelizes, present participle parallelizing, simple past and past participle parallelized)

present singular third person parallelizes · participle present parallelizing · participle past parallelized · past parallelized · alternative parallelise

  1. To make parallel (to each other).

    Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.

  2. 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
  3. To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.

    They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.

Origin

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
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