Dictionary

parallelize en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. To make parallel (to each other).
   • Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.
2. To make to execute in parallel.
   • 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:
   • The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.
3. To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.
   • They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.

Forms

Deriveds

parallelizable · parallelizability · nonparallelized · parallelizer

Translations (9)

pt paralelizar (make parallel) · fi rinnakkaistaa (make parallel) · sv parallellisera (make parallel) · ca paral·lelitzar (make parallel) · de parallelisieren (make parallel) · pl zrównoleglić (make parallel) · es paralelizar (make parallel) · it parallelizzare (make parallel) · fr paralléliser (make parallel)