Multitasking

[Jason Yan]

A polite way of telling someone you havent heard a word they said. Commonly used on long conference calls, when the speaker is monotonous, boring, or couldnt make a point of one were drawn for them.

[Michiko]

Multitasking is processing multiple tasks at one time. For example, when you see someone in the car next to you eating a burrito, taking on his cell phone, and trying to drive at the same, that person is multitasking.
Multitasking also refers to the way a computer works. Unlike the phone and burrito juggling driver, a computers CPU can handle many processes at one time with complete accuracy. However, it will only process the instructions sent to it by the computers software. Therefore, to make full use of the CPUs capabilities, the software must be able to process more than one task at a time, or multitask.
Early operating systems could run multiple programs at one time, but did not fully support multitasking. Therefore, a single program could consume the computers entire CPU while performing a certain operation. Basic operating system processes, such as copying files, prevented the user from performing other tasks, such as opening or closing windows. Fortunately, since modern operating systems include full multitasking support, multiple programs can run at the same time without affecting each other. Also, multiple operating system processes can take place simultaneously.
Since multitasking can handle several tasks at once, it also improves the stability of the computer. For example, if one process crashes, it will not affect the other running programs, since the computer handles each process separately. In other words, if you are in the middle of writing a paper in a word processing program and your Web browser unexpectedly quits, you wont lose your work. Thats when you can really be thankful for multitasking.

[Tina]

A nice way to say that youre doing many different things at the same time. And since no one can divide by 0, that means youre doing many different things half-assed.

[Greta]

1)Surfing the internet while carrying on an instant message conversaation.
2)Carrying on multiple instant message converations at the same time. Beware of typing something relevant to the wrong conversation.

[Donald Trump]

The act of looking at pornography and instant messaging at the same time.

[Dianne]

To accomplish two or more tasks simultaneously.

The act of a CPU concurrently executing two or more interrelated or disassociated job processes.

[Agnes]

When a female or male is courting two or more partners at the same time. Its basically a more polite way to call a person a slut or comment on lack of character. Referred to especially when said person [multitasker] has a current relationship with someone else. Multitasking is considered the gateway to cheating and can also be considered cheating.

[Sommer]

Doing anything else while playing Tetris

[Agnes]

When some one farts and sneezes , coughs , laughs at the same time, I own the phrase multitasking.

[Oralee]

a persons ability to do more than one thing at a time:

[Tina]

The performance of more than one task at the same time.