multitasking: Meaning and Definition of

mul•ti•task•ing

Pronunciation: (mul"tē-tas'king, -tä'sking, mul"tī-), [key]
— n. Computers.
  1. the concurrent or interleaved execution of two or more jobs by a single CPU.
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