parallelization

English

Alternative forms

• parallelisation

Etymology

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

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ization

English parallelization

From parallel + -ization.

Noun

parallelization (countable and uncountable, plural parallelizations)

1. The act of making things parallel.
2. The act of making operations work in parallel, particularly in, but not limited to, computing.

Related terms

• embarrassingly parallel
• massively parallel
• parallelizability

Translations

act of making parallel

• Finnish: yhdensuuntaistus (fi)
• Portuguese: paralelização f
• Spanish: paralelización (es) f