noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
2. 2
   computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order wordnet
3. 3
   An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent processes or threads.

Synonyms

All synonyms

job schedulerjob scheduler

Example

More examples

"I use Outlook's scheduler at work and I think I'd like to buy a PDA and synchronize them."

Etymology

From schedule + -er.

Related phrases

job scheduleroperating system

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