multithreaded
Consisting of multiple threads (literal or figurative) woven together.
Adjective
- 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...
- Of an application program, having more than one thread of execution; thus taking advantage of multi-tasking operating systems and hardware.
- Of a programming language, able to produce such programs
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English thread English -ed English threaded English multithreaded From multi- + threaded.