Backgrounding

Definition: Backgrounding

Backgrounding

Noun

1. The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system.

Synonym: Backgrounding

Synonym: background processing (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: ambient noise (environment), background (politics & international affairesphysicslanguageeuropean union, personal care & hotelsenvironmentelectrical engineeringcomputingcomputing, meteorology & standardsfine artsfine arts, post & telecomfine arts, labor), background art (law), background din (environment, physicsenvironment), background gas (nuclear energy & physics, electrical engineering), background music (fine arts, post & telecomfine arts, labor), background sound (fine arts, post & telecom), sky background (geography).

Usage Frequency: Backgrounding

"Backgrounding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Backgrounding" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Backgrounding

Language		Translations for "backgrounding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		ackgroundingbay.(various references)

Russian		фоновая обработка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Backgrounding

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-g-g-i-k-n-n-o-r-u"
	-3 letters: background.
	-4 letters: abounding, brocading, grounding, unbracing, unbraking, uncorking, undocking.
	-5 letters: abducing, aborning, adorning, airbound, boarding, bouncing, bounding, braconid, branding, buncoing, bunkoing, congaing, cranking, croaking, drouking, groaning, guarding, rigaudon, rounding, uncaging, uncaking, uncaring, undaring, unrobing.
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