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parallelize

American  
[par-uh-lel-ahyz, -luh-lahyz] / ˈpær ə lɛlˌaɪz, -ləˌlaɪz /
especially British, parallelise

verb (used with object)

parallelized, parallelizing

  1. to make parallel; place so as to be parallel.

  2. to draw a parallelism or analogy between.

Other Word Forms

  • parallelization noun

Etymology

Origin of parallelize

From the Greek word parallēlízein, dating back to 1600–10. See parallel, -ize

Example Sentences

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Both teams “found ways to massively parallelize the calculations,” Pawelski says.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has made a portal that allows developers to create and delete Dev Boxes and even parallelize tasks across multiple machines.

From The Verge • May 24, 2022

Immediately the forward ends of the fibres are nipped between the quickly-moving drawing rollers, the fibres affected slide on those which have not yet reached the drawing rollers, and, incidentally, help to parallelize the fibres.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.

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