foreground processing

1. 1.

   the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system

   Synonymsforegrounding

   Broaderpriority processing

Questions about foreground processing

What does foreground processing mean?

foreground processing means "the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system".

What is another word for foreground processing?

Close synonyms include foregrounding. 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 foreground processing a common word?

foreground 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.