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foreground
(mass) | foreground
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foreground
(encz) | foreground,popředí n: |
foreground
(encz) | foreground,prioritní Pavel Cvrček |
Foreground
(gcide) | Foreground \Fore"ground`\, n.
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture,
or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is
nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest
part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
[1913 Webster] |
foreground
(wn) | foreground
n 1: the part of a scene that is near the viewer
2: (computer science) a window for an active application
v 1: move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent;
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished
career in linguistics" [syn: foreground, highlight,
spotlight, play up] [ant: background, downplay,
play down] |
foreground
(foldoc) | foreground
(Unix) On a time-sharing system, a task executing in
foreground is one able to accept input from and return output
to the user in contrast to one running in the background.
Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it
appears first to have been used in this sense on OS/360.
Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or
terminal window). Having multiple processes simultaneously
reading the keyboard is confusing.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-24)
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foreground
(jargon) | foreground
vt.
[Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's stack for immediate
processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
“If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground
writing up the design document.”
Technically, on a timesharing system, a task executing in foreground is one
able to accept input from and return output to the user; oppose {background
}. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it appears
first to have been used in this sense on OS/360. Normally, there is only
one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window); having multiple
processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is a good way to lose.
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foreground processing
(encz) | foreground processing, n: |
foregrounding
(encz) | foregrounding, n: |
Foreground
(gcide) | Foreground \Fore"ground`\, n.
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture,
or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is
nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest
part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
[1913 Webster] |
foreground processing
(wn) | foreground processing
n 1: the execution of a program that preempts the use of the
processing system [syn: foreground processing,
foregrounding] |
foregrounding
(wn) | foregrounding
n 1: the execution of a program that preempts the use of the
processing system [syn: foreground processing,
foregrounding] |
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