multitask

The English word “multitask” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

Handling or involving multiple tasks at once.

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.

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.

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