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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having more than one thread of execution. Used of applications.
  • adjective Supporting multithreaded applications. Used of programming languages.

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  • adjective computing Of an application program, having more than one thread of execution; thus taking advantage of multi-tasking operating systems and hardware.
  • adjective computing Of a programming language, able to produce such programs

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multi- + threaded

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