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supertask

noun

Etymology

From super- + task.

  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 supertask — “super + task”

Definitions

  1. A quantifiably infinite number of operations that occur sequentially within a finite…

    A quantifiably infinite number of operations that occur sequentially within a finite interval of time.

    • One might object that this scenario is truly a fiction, but the recent literature on supertasks shows that, although their reality is definitely still not established, at least its plausibility can be argued for.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for supertask. 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