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microtask

microtask noun: a very small or simple task.

Noun

microtask (plural microtasks)

  1. A very small or simple task.
    • Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web marketplace for crowdsourcing microtasks, such as answering surveys and image tagging.2015 September 19, “Lessons Learned from Crowdsourcing Complex Engineering Tasks”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of microtask

pluralmicrotasks

Origin of microtask

From micro- + task.

Words formed from microtask

Questions about microtask

What does microtask mean?
Microtask means a very small or simple task.
What part of speech is microtask?
Microtask is a noun.
What is the plural of microtask?
The plural of microtask is microtasks.

Words near microtask in the dictionary

  1. microtargeted
  2. microtargeting
  3. microtargets
  4. microtasimeter
  5. microtasimeters
  6. microtask
  7. microtasking
  8. microtasks
  9. microtaught
  10. microtaxonomic
  11. microtaxonomy

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