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Background process
Noun
Definitions
1.
Noun
A process that is not currently able to receive input from its controlling terminal.
Synonyms
background processing
background
daemon
zombie
batch process
zombie process
busy loop
wait state
archdevil
coprocess
starvation
batch processing
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