Definition of "multitasking" []

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

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• "A Phone on a thong. .that's what I call multitasking!"
• "Studies at the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt have shown that multitasking is really a misnomer."
• "Such practitioners know that the complicated behavior we call multitasking is just doing many things poorly, and none of them well."