parallel processing

1. 1.

   simultaneous processing by two or more processing units

   Synonymsmultiprocessing

   Broaderdata processing

Questions about parallel processing

What does parallel processing mean?

parallel processing means "simultaneous processing by two or more processing units".

What is another word for parallel processing?

Close synonyms include multiprocessing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parallel processing a common word?

parallel processing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.