# preemption

> act of temporarily interrupting a task being carried out by a computer system, without requiring its cooperation, and with the intention of resuming the task at a later time

**Wikidata**: [Q1193100](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1193100)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemption_(computing))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/preemption


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)