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Parallelism is running processes simultaneously to maximize resources for faster processing.

Actually, that's incorrect. Parallelism in computer science is a property of an algorithm used to solve a problem. The Parallelism of an algorithm is its ability to be broken into discrete, independent parts which can be operated on separately, then recombined to obtain the answer the algorithm was supposed to provide. The greater the number of discrete parts that the algorithm can be broken into, the higher the Parallelism.

"Parallelism" can, however, be used to characterize the ability of a processor to work on different tasks at once, in a manner analogous to that of describing the ability of an algorithm to work on different portions of a problem simultaneously.

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