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FOREGROUND PROCESSING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foreground processing mean?
• FOREGROUND PROCESSING (noun)
The noun FOREGROUND PROCESSING has 1 sense:
1. the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system
Familiarity information: FOREGROUND PROCESSING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FOREGROUND PROCESSING (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
foreground processing; foregrounding
Hypernyms ("foreground processing" is a kind of...):
priority processing (data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities)
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