concurrency

concurrency

[kən′kər·ən·sē]

(computer science)

Referring to two or more tasks of a computer system which are in progress simultaneously.

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concurrency

multitasking

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concurrency

Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide overlapping of two independent processes. See parallelism, concurrent programming language, dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP.

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