present participle of parallelize

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

At the same time; together, or cotemporally. / (electricity) Electrical components connected side by side, instead of in series.

plural of massive parallelism

A style of education in which students are taught simultaneously in two languages: a "primary" language which is dominant in the given country (in which the immersion is taking place), plus a "secondary" language which is the student's native language.

(computing) having many individual or distributed processing units and thus able to carry out many simultaneous calculations

(law, US, antitrust law) Price fixing that occurs without direct communication between the participants, but where the participants instead intentionally follow one another in raising prices to maximize profits at the expense of competitive pricing.

An electrical circuit that has two or more components that are connected in parallel.

A set of apparatus consisting of two horizontal bars at a small distance apart, upon which acts of swinging and holding and jumping and dips are performed. / A gymnastics event using the parallel bars.

(anthropology) The child of one's father's brother or of one's mother's sister; a cousin related via same-gender siblings rather than opposite-gender ones (the latter being a cross-cousin).