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cronjob

noun

Etymology

From cron + job. From cron, name of the system program that handles these tasks; from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

  1. derived from χρόνος — “time”

Definitions

  1. An automated task that runs at specific intervals.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cronjob. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA