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preemptive multitasking
A type of multitasking in which the operating system can interrupt a currently running program in order to run another program, as needed. Compare cooperative multitasking.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Software; Computer
- Category: Operating systems
- Company: Apple
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