multitask
Handling or involving multiple tasks at once.
Adjective
- Handling or involving multiple tasks at once.
Origin
From multi- + task. The adjectival sense in computing first appears c. 1965 in the publications of B.I. Witt. The verbal sense first appears c. 1986 in the Daily Telegraph.
Forms
Verb
- To schedule and execute multiple tasks (program) simultaneously; control being passed from one to the other using interrupts.
- To handle multiple tasks at once.