background processing

1. 1.

   the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system

   Synonymsbackgrounding

   Broaderpriority processing

Questions about background processing

What does background processing mean?

background processing means "the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system".

What is another word for background processing?

Close synonyms include backgrounding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is background processing a common word?

background processing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.