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task switching

Switching between applications that have been loaded in memory. It generally refers to a user purposely jumping from one application to another, for example, by pressing Alt-Tab or Windows key-Tab in Windows. Task switching is also performed automatically by a multitasking operating system that continually switches the CPU from one background program to another.

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