parallelism Definition
par·al·lel·ism (par′ə lel′iz′əm, -ləl-)
noun
- the state of being parallel
- close resemblance; similarity
- the use of parallel structure in writing
- an instance of this
- Philos. the doctrine that mind and matter function together synchronously but without any causal interaction
Etymology: Gr parallēlismos
parallelism Synonyms
parallelism Usage Examples
Converse of object
- exploit: Several research groups world-wide aim to advance the methodology of direct silicon implementations in an attempt to exploit the natural parallelism in these networks.
- use: Eliot uses the parallelism to good effect, such that subject and theme are related but divergent at the same time.
- have: And if I don't have enough parallelism, the CPU is idle it goes to sleep until you fix the external memory.
- call: The other type may be called Incomplete Parallelism, and it is to be noted that this again falls into two classes.
- support: Timing In previous submissions to the Commission we have supported parallelism between the Directive and The Basel Accord.
- detect: To be able to analyze an algorithm and detect parallelism using notions of data dependency.
Preposition: in
- code: It is designed to support a large degrees of parallelism in application codes and manage the complexities of the physical system for the user.
- structure: In addition an algorithm for discovering inherent parallelism in the structure of process models was developed.
Adjective modifier
- psycho-physical: Thus without some solution to the problem of psycho-physical parallelism such interpretative approaches are incomplete.
- inherent: Another important advantage of direct mapped cache is its inherent parallelism.
- massive: Molecular Computation Using DNA to solve computational problems can allow massive parallelism, by exploring 10 19 cases in parallel.
- instruction-level: He has also co-edited a book on instruction-level parallelism.
- synonymous: In verse 5, there is a close similarity between both lines, signifying synonymous parallelism.
- chiastic: That, except for the first word in the letter, the name 'Paul ' occurs only in these units enhances their chiastic parallelism.
Modifies a noun
cannot: Where useful parallelism cannot be found, sequential code is produced.
Noun used with modifier
- quantum: In theory, this quantum parallelism can be utilized for solving problems which are intractable on any classical computer.
- grain: First, we can distribute the work among several processors using coarse or fine grain parallelism.
- datum: At the next level, the objective is for architecture independence, in which control and data parallelism are merged.
- level: Lower level parallelism: concurrent execution within lower level routines.
- staircase: Thus, the threefold use of staircase parallelism immediately arrests the reader's attention.
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