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Dividing a resource so that each application or task that requests the resource is allocated some amount of time. The scheduler allows the current thread to run on a given processor until either the thread blocks or a time slice (a predetermined length of time) expires. At that time, the scheduler stops execution of the running thread and allows another eligible thread to run...until either it blocks or the time slice expires, and so on.

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