PRIORITY PROCESSING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("priority processing" is a kind of...):

data processing ((computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "priority processing"):

background processing; backgrounding (the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system)

foreground processing; foregrounding (the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system)