parallelize

[ par-uh-lel-ahyz, -luh-lahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, par·al·lel·ized, par·al·lel·iz·ing.

1. to make parallel; place so as to be parallel.
2. to draw a parallelism or analogy between.

Other Words From

• paral·leli·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of parallelize¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American

As Frias continues to parallelize his narrative between America and Mexico, the two strands begin to feel less like jumps in time than a dialectic about alienation and connection, color and darkness.

From Los Angeles Times

Fundamentally, parallelizing work for GPUs means breaking it up into little pieces and farming those pieces out to individual cores, where they are run simultaneously.

From Nature

“The new Parallel Programming library ‘exponentially increases’ the performance of existing C++ and Object Pascal code by parallelizing threads that can take full advantage of multi-core CPUs,” said the company in a press statement.

From Forbes

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 Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• complement
• correlate
• correspond
• imitate