parallelization
noun
parallelization is a noun meaning “The act of making things parallel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of parallelization is parallelizations.
What does parallelization mean?
noun
- 1
The act of making things parallel.
- 2
The act of making operations work in parallel, particularly in, but not limited to, computing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of parallelization
- parallelizations plural
- parallelisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is parallelization?
Parallelization appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Parallelization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of making parallel:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | paralelização |
| Spanish | paralelización |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does parallelization come from?
From parallel + -ization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).