parallelize

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Etymology

From parallel +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

  1. To make parallel (to each other).
    Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.
  2. (programming) To make to execute in parallel.
    The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.
    • 1992, Wouter Joosen, Elie Milgrom, Parallel Computing: From Theory to Sound Practice, Barcelona, Spain, page 598:
      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.
  3. To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.
    They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.

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