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Answer for the clue "A device that can interleave two or more activities ", 11 letters:
multiplexer

Word definitions for multiplexer in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Where more than one channel is provided for, the device is question will incorporate some form of analogue multiplexer .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In electronics , a multiplexer (or mux ) is a device that selects one of several analog or digital input signals and forwards the selected input into a single line. A multiplexer of 2 inputs has n select lines, which are used to select which input line ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a device that can interleave two or more activities

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that interleave several activities; a switching device. 2 (context computing telecommunication English) A device that combines several input signals into a single output signal.

Usage examples of multiplexer.

Sam Musso the cybernetic synthezoid who had to have extra multiplexers put into his head?

The shop presented one flax wall opposite Com-central, a wall about four and a half meters high and ten meters long-its face covered with plugboards, comparators, simultaneous multiplexers, buffer-system monitors, diagnostic instruments -- dials and telltales.

The shop presented one flax wall opposite Com-central, a wall about four and a half meters high and ten meters long-its face covered with plugboards, comparators, simultaneous multiplexers, buffer-system monitors, diagnostic instruments -- dials and telltales.

Beneath a litter of ruffled shirts, a shaving kit, and cans of hair spray, the trunk was packed to the gills with electronic contraband: coax cables, multiplexers, buffers and converters, shiny plug-in cards still in their heat-sealed baggies, multiplugged surge suppressors wrapped in tentacles of black extension cord.