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The act of one process giving up control of the CPU to another process is called a context switch. Each piece of time—called a time slice—gives a process enough time for significant computation. However, because the slices are so small, humans can’t perceive them, and the system appears to be running multiple processes at the same time. The kernel is responsible for context switching.

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