multitask

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

Handling or involving multiple tasks at once.

Verb

1. To schedule and execute multiple tasks (program) simultaneously; control being passed from one to the other using interrupts.
2. (figuratively) To handle multiple tasks at once.

Conceptes

multitasca

Traduccions

multitâche

multitarea

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.