Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

parallelize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables: par-al-lelize
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make parallel (to each other).

verb

To make to execute in parallel.

verb

To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.

Example Sentences

"Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers."
"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."
"They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases."

Etymology

Etymology tree English parallel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English parallelize From parallel + -ize.

Inflected Forms

parallelizes (present, singular) parallelizing (participle, present) parallelized (participle, past) parallelized (past) parallelise (alternative)

Derived Forms

nonparallelized parallelizability parallelizable parallelizer

Questions

What does parallelize mean?: To make parallel (to each other).
Where does parallelize come from?: Etymology tree English parallel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English parallelize From parallel + -ize.

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