Computer terminology

Comp sys has a program running, every program has a process, every process has threads, thread performs a single mathematical or logical operation. So may threads in a computer. Thts where we have hyper threading technology in Processors. thats all i know about threads from my point of view. :)

For online discussions, threads are a series of messages that have been posted as replies to each other. By reading each message in a thread, one after the other, one can see how the discussion has evolved. One can start a new thread by posting a message that is not a reply to an earlier message. However in programming, a part of a program that can execute independently is a thread (very similar to a process).

a thread is like a link to hold things together