threading

The act or process by which something is threaded (in various senses).

Noun

  1. The act or process by which something is threaded (in various senses).
    • The majority, 96.2 percent, of the e-mails had only up to four threadings. - 2011, Alexander Gelbukh, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, page 236:
    • Delighted with the results and eager to try my hand at creating my own Corris-effect drafts, I studied the threading and eventually recognized the pattern. The effect results from three parallel threadings where each...
  2. An ancient Eastern method for removing hair by means of a thread, which is rolled over the hair in order to pluck it out at the follicle level; especially used in the context of eyebrows.

    Coordinate Terms: epilation

  3. A screw thread.

Forms

threadings

Derived

cross-threading dethreading hyperthreading multithreading

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of thread