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multitask

adj

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from taxō — “to censure; to charge”
  2. derived from tasca
  3. derived from tasque
  4. inherited from taske — “task, tax”
  5. prefixed as multitask — “multi + task”

Definitions

  1. Handling or involving multiple tasks at once.

  2. To schedule and execute multiple tasks (program) simultaneously

    To schedule and execute multiple tasks (program) simultaneously; control being passed from one to the other using interrupts.

  3. To handle multiple tasks at once.

The neighborhood

Derived

multislack, multitaskable

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multitask. 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