parallelize

To make parallel (to each other).

Verb

  1. To make parallel (to each other).
    • Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.
  2. To make to execute in parallel.
    • The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.
    • 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.

Origin

Etymology tree English parallel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English parallelize From parallel + -ize.

Forms

parallelizes parallelizing parallelized parallelise

Derived

nonparallelized parallelizability parallelizable parallelizer