| NOUN | process | priority processing | data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities |
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| Meaning | data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities. | |
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| Narrower | 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 | |
| Broader | data processing | (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information |
| Spanish | procesamiento prioritario | |
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