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multithreaded

The English word “multithreaded” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Consisting of multiple threads (literal or figurative) woven together.
  2. Of an application program, having more than one thread of execution; thus taking advantage of multi-tasking operating systems and hardware.
  3. Of a programming language, able to produce such programs

Etymology

From multi- + threaded.

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