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BACKGROUNDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does backgrounding mean?
• BACKGROUNDING (noun)
The noun BACKGROUNDING has 1 sense:
1. the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
Familiarity information: BACKGROUNDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
background processing; backgrounding
Hypernyms ("backgrounding" is a kind of...):
priority processing (data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities)
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