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parallelise

parallelise is the alternative form of parallelize.

Meaning of parallelize

Verb

parallelize (third-person singular simple present parallelizes, present participle parallelizing, simple past and past participle parallelized)

  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.
  3. To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.
    • They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.

Forms of parallelise

third-person singular presentparallelises
present participleparallelising
past participleparallelised
pastparallelised

Origin of parallelise

From parallel + -ise.

Words formed from parallelise

Questions about parallelise

What is parallelise the alternative form of?
Parallelise is the alternative form of parallelize.

Words near parallelise in the dictionary

  1. parallelings
  2. parallelisability
  3. parallelisable
  4. parallelisation
  5. parallelisations
  6. parallelise
  7. parallelised
  8. parallelises
  9. parallelising
  10. parallelism
  11. parallelisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parallelise (page history and authors); parallelize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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