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serial processing

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  1. A technique for solving problems in which a computer begins at the start and works through to the end in a linear fashion. (Compare parallel processing.)

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But the brain is not a serial processing unit; it does not proceed one by one through each of these steps.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2022

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