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Concurrency - property of systems in which several computational processes are executing at the same time, and potentially interacting with each other.

Parallelism - computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently ("in parallel").

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