multitask

Meanings

1. Handling or involving multiple tasks at once.

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