Nonparallel (Adjective)
Meaning 1
(of e.g. lines or paths) not parallel; converging.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The railway lines in this section are nonparallel and converge to a single point before diverging again.
- Nonparallel curves have been detected in the optical signal that suggest anomalies in the optical fiber.
- After driving for a while, I noticed that the roads in this neighborhood are actually nonparallel to the city's grid.
- Studies of elliptical galaxies suggest that many stars move along nonparallel trajectories in relation to one another.
- Traffic management here uses an efficient model where major traffic routes form a system of nonparallel interconnected corridors.
Meaning 2
Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The nonparallel architecture of the old computer made it slow and inefficient for multitasking.
- The programmer had to rewrite the code to take advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of the new hardware, as the nonparallel algorithm was too slow.
- The nonparallel design of the system resulted in a significant bottleneck, causing delays in data processing.
- The researcher compared the performance of parallel and nonparallel algorithms on a variety of tasks, finding significant speed improvements with the parallel approach.
- The nonparallel nature of the sequential processing system made it difficult to scale up to meet the demands of the growing user base.