multithreaded

multithreaded adjective: consisting of multiple threads (literal or figurative) woven together.

Adjective

multithreaded (not comparable)

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
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

application having more than one thread of execution: مُتَعَدَّد مُؤَشِّرَات mutaʕaddad muʔašširāt, مُتَعَدَّد خُيُوط mutaʕaddad ḵuyūṭ, مُتَعَدَّد مُؤَشِّرَات تَرَابُط mutaʕaddad muʔašširāt tarābuṭ

From multi- + threaded.

What does multithreaded mean?: Multithreaded means consisting of multiple threads (literal or figurative) woven together.
What is multithreaded in Arabic?: Multithreaded in Arabic is مُتَعَدَّد مُؤَشِّرَات (mutaʕaddad muʔašširāt), مُتَعَدَّد خُيُوط (mutaʕaddad ḵuyūṭ), مُتَعَدَّد مُؤَشِّرَات تَرَابُط (mutaʕaddad muʔašširāt tarābuṭ). See Multithreaded meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is multithreaded?: Multithreaded is an adjective.

Adapted from Wiktionary: multithreaded (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-multithreaded.wav.

Cite this entry: “multithreaded.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/multithreaded. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.