What is "multitask"

Usage examples of "multitask".

Not only do we multitask, but, with computers as our guides, we multitask self-consciously.

Of course, we multitask, watch television and eat and leaf through a magazine and do needlepoint.

Not only do we multitask, but we apply sophisticated critical-path scheduling algorithms to the second-by-second minutiae of daily life.

For full ability, a soldier has to be able to multitask at least three in a combat environment.

When a computer multitasks, it usually just alternates tasks, but on the finest of time scales.

We promised to help you get that central multitasking unit for Peckhum.

He had promised Peckhum a new central multitasking unit, knowing how important it was to the mirror station.

An employee was currently demonstrating and extolling the virtues of some sort of complex-looking, multitasking imaging unit to a customer.

Remote controls: their very existence, in the hands of a quick-reflexed, multitasking, channel-flipping, fast-forwarding citizenry, has caused an acceleration in the pace of films and television commercials.

Programmers sometimes assume a lockstep timing that does not exist in a free-wheeling, multitasking world.

Pauses manage to reinsert themselves into the flow of our faster, multitasking mental lives.

Unless, that is, it has more than one processor running, in which case multitasking can be truly parallel processing.

For some people television has been bumped off its pedestal by the cool, fast, fluid, indigenously multitasking activity of browsing the Internet.

No talk without simultaneous action, because we viewers, after all, enjoy multitasking, and we can absorb the words and movement all at once.

In an age of multitasking, we can conveniently experience the pleasures of nature while we eat or shop in the mall.