Multippelisasjon

Multippelisasjon is a Norwegian neologism used in some technical and scientific literature to describe a state or process characterized by the creation or maintenance of multiple isolated instances of a component, subsystem, or phenomenon. The exact meaning depends on context, but common elements are multiplicity and isolation.

In information technology, multippelisasjon is used to refer to running several independent environments or processes on a single hardware platform to improve fault tolerance, security, or scalability. This can involve containerization, virtualization, or multi-instance deployments in which each instance operates in isolation from others, often communicating through defined interfaces.

In biology or epidemiology, the term may be used to describe the practice of isolating several samples or strains from different sources, or the emergence of multiple independent lineages within a population. In this context, multippelisasjon emphasizes parallelism and separation among units studied.

Historically the term is not standardized; it appears sporadically in Norwegian-language texts and may be defined variably. When used, it is advisable to clarify the intended scope and the type of isolation (logical, physical, or operational) to avoid ambiguity.

See also: isolation, replication, redundancy, virtualization, containerization, multiplexing.