parallelism.

1. The use of multiple computational activities that proceed at the same time or overlap in execution.

2. The use of similar grammatical patterns in related phrases or clauses.

3. The geometric relationship of lines, surfaces, or directions that do not intersect.

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Words that belong together

• task parallelism
• data parallelism

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Task parallelism kept the navigation solution running while the survey was processed.

The simulation gained little from parallelism once its workers had to wait on the same data.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable; parallelisms for distinct structures or correspondences. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.