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multitask

multitask adjective: handling or involving multiple tasks at once.

Adjective

multitask

  1. Handling or involving multiple tasks at once.

Verb

multitask (third-person singular simple present multitasks, present participle multitasking, simple past and past participle multitasked)

  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.

Forms of multitask

Adjective
alternative formmulti-task
Verb
third-person singular presentmultitasks
present participlemultitasking
past participlemultitasked
pastmultitasked

Origin of multitask

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.

Words formed from multitask

Questions about multitask

What does multitask mean?
Multitask means handling or involving multiple tasks at once.
What part of speech is multitask?
Multitask can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near multitask in the dictionary

  1. multitapers
  2. multitaps
  3. multitarget
  4. multitargeted
  5. multitargeting
  6. multitask
  7. multitaskable
  8. multitasked
  9. multitasker
  10. multitaskers
  11. multitasking

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