multiprocessing
- noun
- /ˌmʌltɪˈprɒsɛsɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
multiprocesamiento
- The software can utilize multiprocessing to improve the speed of data processing tasks significantly.
- multiprocessing system
Examples
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I'm going to venture a thought... that I might regret down the road... and anticipating that regret... makes me, you know, hesitate... so we're going to have to put this... through a multiprocessing here, but... voyeuristic as it might be... I've been watching you guys for a while.
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Parts of the system measurement instrument (SMI) support performance measurements, especially in the multiprocessing environment.
Academic text (1997) -
Multiprocessing is perfectly straightforward; it's all in the application protocols.
Fiction book (1992) -
The tools available in the wider OCaml world for doing this kind of multiprocessing programming, however, are still maturing.
Academic text (2011) -
The G3 processor chip set covers a wide performance range from a uniprocessor to a high-performance multiprocessing system.
Academic text (1997) -
The balanced system, cache structure, and the modularity of the components of Generation 3 support a wide performance range from a uniprocessor to a high-performance multiprocessing system.
Academic text (1997) -
If we ever do get highly parallel symmetric multiprocessing to work well for consumer applications, most of that will be wasted real estate; more cores with less functionality on a chip will be more cost-effective.
Blog text (16) -
I've also noticed that languages with poor threading support tend to use multiprocessing, which makes them more scalable across machines, since by the time you've set up IPC, distributing across machines isn't much of an architectural change.
Blog text (7) -
In a multiprocessing environment, multiple processors work together to complete tasks more efficiently.
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By implementing multiprocessing, the application can run multiple operations simultaneously without delay.
Synonyms
1
4.3
Using two or more processors at the same time to do work faster
1
7.1
Using several processors at the same time to make a computer work faster
Doing more than one task at the same time on computers or machines
Antonyms
How Parallel
- Specialized
1
4.3
- Specialized
- Specialized
1
4.6
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
multiprocessing = processing (transparent) = multi + process + ing
The word is transparently built from 'multi-' plus 'processing', and the technical meaning follows directly from the idea of several processing operations happening at once.
Etymology
Multiprocessing breaks into multi- meaning 'many' and process meaning 'to handle or work on'. So multiprocessing simply means using more than one processor to handle tasks at the same time inside a computer.