Multitasking
noun
Doing more than one thing at the same time.
The new software is capable of multitasking, so you can check your email while downloading a file.
Often appears as...
- capable of multitasking
- multitasking skills
noun
In computing, the execution of more than one program or task on a computer at the same time.
The operating system has improved multitasking capabilities, allowing for smoother transitions between applications.
Often appears as...
- improved multitasking
- multitasking capabilities
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Technical
adjective
Having the ability to handle more than one task at the same time.
A multitasking employee is a valuable asset to any company.
Often appears as...
- multitasking employee
- multitasking abilities
noun
Doing more than one thing at the same time.
The new software is capable of multitasking, so you can check your email while downloading a file.
Often appears as...
- capable of multitasking
- multitasking skills
noun
In computing, the execution of more than one program or task on a computer at the same time.
The operating system has improved multitasking capabilities, allowing for smoother transitions between applications.
Often appears as...
- improved multitasking
- multitasking capabilities
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Having the ability to handle more than one task at the same time.
A multitasking employee is a valuable asset to any company.
Often appears as...
- multitasking employee
- multitasking abilities
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Positive
Multitasking isn't universally praised; it can imply you're not focused.
While multitasking during the meeting, I missed important details.
Pro Tip 2/3Job Descriptions
Often mentioned in job postings to describe a fast-paced environment.
The job requires multitasking in a dynamic office setting.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Collocations
Frequently paired with words like 'skills', 'ability', or 'environment'.
You'll need good multitasking abilities to thrive here.
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you'd think you've made progress across all of them. Like multitasking at work, splitting your attention across multiple savings goals just isn't efficient. Now, that's not to say that this will be your only savings goal; you'll have many more throughout your life.
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Do schools kill...
this is probably why women are better at multitasking. Because you are, aren't you? There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life. If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often thankfully. No, she's good at some things.
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What percentage of your...
This is the energy limit we have to live with in order to be conscious at all. The need to conserve resources is the reason most of the brain's operations must happen outside of consciousness. It's why multitasking is a fool's errand.
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It's not fatal, but sometimes grief feels like it could be. And if we can't prevent it in one another, what can we do? We need each other to remember, to help each other remember, that grief is this multitasking emotion.
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And if solving a problem while having a bath isn't multitasking, I don't know what is. The second reason that multitasking can work is that learning to do one thing well can often help you do something else.
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Paolo Cardini: Forget...
focusing on just one task, or maybe turning your digital senses totally off. So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product. Why not? So find your monotask spot within the multitasking world.
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mom is the center of the universe and a willing victim to the cubs play but while they play she maintains her vigils she's their provider she's their defender and teacher multitasking all the time
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in one of the most important processes in biology, plants and bacteria taking sunlight, and using that energy to create biomass. Quantum coherence is the idea of quantum entities multitasking.
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Giving checkmate is...
more it gave me life skills which I use in everyday life whatever I do in our multitasking world I think creativity logical thinking problem-solving and good decision-making are essential
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We don't "move on" from...
and not all wounds are meant to heal? We need each other to remember, to help each other remember, that grief is this multitasking emotion.
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A simple 2-step plan for...
you'd think you've made progress across all of them. Like multitasking at work, splitting your attention across multiple savings goals just isn't efficient. Now, that's not to say that this will be your only savings goal; you'll have many more throughout your life.
Video examples
Do schools kill...
this is probably why women are better at multitasking. Because you are, aren't you? There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life. If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often thankfully. No, she's good at some things.
Video examples
What percentage of your...
This is the energy limit we have to live with in order to be conscious at all. The need to conserve resources is the reason most of the brain's operations must happen outside of consciousness. It's why multitasking is a fool's errand.
Video examples
The messy truth about...
It's not fatal, but sometimes grief feels like it could be. And if we can't prevent it in one another, what can we do? We need each other to remember, to help each other remember, that grief is this multitasking emotion.
Video examples
A powerful way to...
And if solving a problem while having a bath isn't multitasking, I don't know what is. The second reason that multitasking can work is that learning to do one thing well can often help you do something else.
Video examples
Paolo Cardini: Forget...
focusing on just one task, or maybe turning your digital senses totally off. So nowadays, everyone could produce his mono product. Why not? So find your monotask spot within the multitasking world.
Video examples
Frans Lanting &...
mom is the center of the universe and a willing victim to the cubs play but while they play she maintains her vigils she's their provider she's their defender and teacher multitasking all the time
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How Quantum Biology...
in one of the most important processes in biology, plants and bacteria taking sunlight, and using that energy to create biomass. Quantum coherence is the idea of quantum entities multitasking.
Video examples
Giving checkmate is...
more it gave me life skills which I use in everyday life whatever I do in our multitasking world I think creativity logical thinking problem-solving and good decision-making are essential
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We don't "move on" from...
and not all wounds are meant to heal? We need each other to remember, to help each other remember, that grief is this multitasking emotion.
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Weili Dai
Chinese Businesswoman
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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Susannah Cahalan
American Journalist
NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits.
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Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.
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Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.
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Chiara Ferragni
Italian Businesswoman
As long as you're ahead of a trend, I think you're going to be fine. You really have to have a multitasking mind that can switch from one thing to the other easily without too much focus on, 'Oh, I'm going to Instagram my life.
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Andie MacDowell
American Actress
We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.
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Irene Rosenfeld
American Businesswoman
I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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Ellen Ullman
American
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?
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Victoria Coren Mitchell
English Writer
They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.
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Monica
American Musician
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.
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Weili Dai
Chinese Businesswoman
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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Susannah Cahalan
American Journalist
NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits.
Quote examples
Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.
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Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.
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Chiara Ferragni
Italian Businesswoman
As long as you're ahead of a trend, I think you're going to be fine. You really have to have a multitasking mind that can switch from one thing to the other easily without too much focus on, 'Oh, I'm going to Instagram my life.
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Andie MacDowell
American Actress
We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.
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Irene Rosenfeld
American Businesswoman
I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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Ellen Ullman
American
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?
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Victoria Coren Mitchell
English Writer
They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.
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Monica
American Musician
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.
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