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Dictionary: mul·ti·us·er   (mŭl'tē-yū'zər, -tī-) pronunciation
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Of or relating to a device or product, such as a computer system, that can be used by more than one person at the same time.


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"Single user" redirects here. For a product designed for cheapness and short-term convenience rather than medium to long-term durability, see Single use.

Multi-user is a term that defines an operating system or application software that allows concurrent access by multiple users of a computer. Time-sharing systems are multi-user systems. Most batch processing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered "multi-user", to avoid leaving the CPU idle while it waits for I/O operations to complete. However, the term "multitasking" is more common in this context.

An example is a Unix server where multiple remote users have access (such as via Secure Shell) to the Unix shell prompt at the same time. Another example uses multiple X Window sessions spread across multiple terminals powered by a single machine - this is an example of the use of thin client.

Management systems are implicitly designed to be used by multiple users, typically one system administrator or more and an end-user community.

The complementary term, single-user, is most commonly used when talking about an operating system being usable only by one person at a time, or in reference to a single-user software license agreement. Multi-user operating systems such as Unix sometimes have a single user process available for emergency maintenance.

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Translations: Multi-user
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - flerbruger (edb)

Nederlands (Dutch)
voor meerdere gebruikers

Français (French)
adj. - (Comput) à utilisateurs multiples, multiposte

Deutsch (German)
adj. - (Comp.) Mehrbenutzer-

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (Η/Υ) σύστημα πολλών χρηστών
attrib. - πολλών χρηστών

Italiano (Italian)
per più utenti

Português (Portuguese)
n. - multi-usuário (m) (Comp.)
attrib. - relativo a multi-usuário

Русский (Russian)
предназначенный для многих пользователей

Español (Spanish)
adj. - multiusuario

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fleranvändare
attr. - fleranvändar-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
多用户的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 多用戶的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 다중 사용자의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - マルチユーザー

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) متعدد المستخدمين (صفه) قابل للاستعمال من عدة أشخاص في آن واحد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לשימוש בו-זמני של יותר ממשתמש אחד (מערכת מחשב)‬

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