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noun The concurrent operation by one central processing unit of two or more processes.

When I mention the idea of multitasking, I mean serious business. — One By One Media
Steve's fixes reduce the amount of stuttering when multitasking, and have also enabled more buffering options. — Symbian-Guru.com
Swiping the card upward "tosses" the card out of the stack, but it doesn't close the application, since it's not currently open to begin with (as it would be on webOS, where the multitasking is real rather than simulated). — TreoCentral
OSNews: In your papers you say that Qube brings multitasking, even if the host OS does not support multitasking (as in the DOS situation). — OSNews
Multiprocessing can also be confused with multitasking, the management of programs and the system services they request as tasks that can be interleaved, and with — SearchDataCenter: IT infrastructure news