multitaskalism

The result of the mental reprogramming that occurs over time when people habitually try to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously.

His love for gadgets and gizmos led to severe multitaskalism by the time he was 30

by Daniel Oram March 20, 2008

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multitask

doing more than one thing at once.

It is a common fallacy that women are good at multitasking, and men are bad at it. The actual truth is, that men like to do things properly, so they do them one at a time and give them their full attention. Women on the other hand, are happy to do a half-assed job.

'What happened to your car?'
'oh, that. my wife was multitasking - parking and talking on the phone at the same time.'
'oh, well i hope it was an interesting conversation, because she parked a bollard into the side of the car.'
'no, she was talking to me on the phone, and she was really distracted by trying to park.'
'oh. how efficient.'

by jimwade December 17, 2009

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multitasking

1. To accomplish two or more tasks simultaneously.

2. The act of a CPU concurrently executing two or more interrelated or disassociated job processes.

1. Girls are exceptional at multitasking; they can use chat on Instant Messenger, write emails, surf the internet, talk on their cellular phone, all while applying makeup and talking with their girlfriends about the new boy at school; however, if you ask them an intelligent question their heads will implode.

2. Intel's new CPU with multi-threading allows the processor to multitask without an additional processing core.

by Christopher M. Vanderwall-Brown August 7, 2007

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multitasker

a person who completes a multitude of tasks, or does many jobs; a factotum

My wife was the quintessential multitasker; she worked at the local sperm bank as a taste tester, worked street corners at night to supplement the family income, and polished my pork sword every night without protest!

by weave July 11, 2003

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