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parallel processing

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parallel processing
n.
The simultaneous processing of different tasks by two or more microprocessors, as by a single computer with more than one central processing unit or by multiple computers connected together in a network.
parallel processing
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(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) the performance by a computer system of two or more simultaneous operations
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Noun1.parallel processing - simultaneous processing by two or more processing units
multiprocessing
data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information
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parallel processing
n (Comput) → Parallelverarbeitung f
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