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task

An independently running program. See multitasking.

task [task]

(computer science)

A set of instructions, data, and control information capable of being executed by the central processing unit of a digital computer in order to accomplish some purpose; in a multiprogramming environment, tasks compete with one another for control of the central processing unit, but in a nonmultiprogramming environment a task is simply the current work to be done.

Task

(1) An assigned goal one strives to achieve.

(2) An errand or assignment.

(3) A problem that must be solved with specific information and reflection—for example, a mathematical problem, a chess problem, a logic problem, or a writing problem.

(4) A method of instruction and of checking accomplishments and skills used in all types of general and specialized schools.

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No references found			"A new kind of man in the coloured world," I said to myself--"a new kind of man surely if he looks upon his task as an economic one instead of a theological one. Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context My dear children, what a task would you think it, even with a long lifetime before you, were you bidden to copy every chapter, and verse, and word, in yonder family Bible Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context 'That may never be,' thought the miller's daughter: and as she knew no other way to get her task done, she said she would do what he asked. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context			Tashirov, Khaitakhun Tashkenbaev Tashkent Tashkent Agricultural Institute Tashkent Agricultural Machinery Plant Tashkent Anti-Soviet Revolt of 1919 Tashkent Declaration of 1966 Tashkent Drama Theater Tashkent Medical Institute Tashkent Oblast Tashkent Pedagogical Institute Tashkent State Regional Electric Power Plant Tashkent Textile Combine Tashkent, Declaration of Tashkent, University of Tashkentskie Mineralnye Vody Tashkepri Tashkurgan Tashkurghan Tashtagol Tashtyk Culture Tasian Culture Tasiilaq Tasin, Georgii Tasin, Georgii Nikolaevich Task task analysis Task Control Block task descriptor task element task fleet Task Force task lighting task management Task Manager task programmer task scheduling task swapping task switched task switcher task switching taskbar Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats Tasks of the Struggle Against Imperialism Tasks of the Youth Leagues Taslitzky, Boris TASM Tasman Tasman Bay Tasman Glacier Tasman Peninsula			Tashmit Tashmitum Tashtagol Tashtyk Tashtyk culture Tashunca-Uitco Tashunka Witko Tashunka Witko TASI Tasian Culture TASID TASIFI TASIG Tasigna Tasiilaq Tasimer tasimeter TASIN Tasin, Georgii Tasin, Georgii Nikolaevich TASIP TASIS TASIT TASITE TASJ Task Task Acknowledgement Report Task Action Commitment Task Action Grammar Task Action Plan Task analysis Task analysis Task analysis Task Analysis for Knowledge Description Task Analysis Safety Card Task Analysis/Operational Sequence Diagram Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire Task and Project List Task And Skill Analysis Task and Skills Analysis Task and Training Requirements Analysis Methodology Task Area Manager Task Area Monitor Task Area Objective Task Area Plan Task Assignment & Reporting System Task Assignment and Control Task Assignment and Data Advertisement Protocol Task Assignment and Directive Task Assignment Guide Task Assignment Memorandum Task Assignment Metric

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