PRIORITY PROCESSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does priority processing mean? 

• PRIORITY PROCESSING (noun)
  The noun PRIORITY PROCESSING has 1 sense:

1. data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities

  Familiarity information: PRIORITY PROCESSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIORITY PROCESSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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)