A computer process is an instance of a computer program being executed by a computer or more specifically by a computer processor.
We may also refer to a running computer program or a computer program being run by a computer.
A computer process tends to run on a single processor of a computer, but concurrent programming and threading can enable the operating system to allocate portions of a process to more than one processor of a given computer system.
Variant of process.
Singular of computer processes.
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