parallelize

verb

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 English parallelize From parallel + -ize.

1. To make parallel (to each other).

   “Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.”

2. To make to execute in parallel.

   “The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.”

   “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.”

3. To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.

   “They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.”