multithreaded
adjEtymology From multi- + threaded.
1
Consisting of multiple threads (literal or figurative) woven together.
- a multithreaded narrative
- The term conflates these two aspects of social identity into an inseparable state of being, suggesting that if we are to understand white trash and the condition it names, we must confront the multithreaded nature of social inequality.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 3:
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of an application program, having more than one thread of execution; thus taking advantage of multi-tasking operating systems and hardware.
3
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a programming language, able to produce such programs
- Derived terms
- nonmultithreaded
- Hypernyms
- threaded