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(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing the ability of a system to perform a low-priority task while, at the same time, dealing with a main application

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

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priority processing - data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities

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