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Suspended Ready

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A process that is in secondary storage and is ready-to-run state but cannot execute until it is moved to main memory.

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Running

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In this state, the process is currently being executed by the CPU.

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Zombie

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A process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table, usually to report its exit status to its parent process.

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Ready Suspended

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Similar to Suspended Ready, it's another term for a ready-to-run process that is in secondary storage, waiting to be brought into main memory.

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Blocked (Waiting)

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A process state where the process cannot proceed until some external event, such as an I/O completion, occurs.

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Suspended Blocked

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A process that is blocked and resides in secondary storage rather than in main memory.

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New

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The state where a process has just been created but has not yet been admitted to the pool of executable processes by the operating system.

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Preempted

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This is when a process in the running state is interrupted to give way to a higher priority process, moving it back to ready state.

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Ready

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This process state indicates that the process has all the necessary resources to run but must wait for CPU time.

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Terminated

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The state of a process that has finished its execution or has been explicitly killed.

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