multithreading.

The use of multiple execution threads within a process or system.

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Words that belong together

• software multithreading
• multithreading support

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Multithreading allowed one part of the program to respond while another waited.

The diagnostic report traced the failure to coordination during multithreading.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.