samhliða

Icelandic

Etymology

From sam- (“co-, fellow, collective”) +‎ hlið (“side”).

Adjective

samhliða (feminine samhliða, neuter samhliða, comparative samhliða, superlative samhliða)

1. parallel, side by side
2. (computing) parallel; (involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time)

Derived terms

computing: processing multiple tasks at the same time

margsamhliða vinnsla (massively parallel processing) samhliða dreifvinnsla (parallel distributed processing) samhliða keyrsla (parallel run) samhliða samlagning (parallel addition) samhliða samleggjari (parallel adder)

samhliða sending (parallel transmission) samhliða tengildi (parallel interface unit) samhliðatengi (parallel port) samhliðavinnsla (parallel processing, parallel computing) samhliðavinnslubúnaður (parallel processing software)

See also

• samskeiða (concurrent)
• samskeiðun (concurrency)