multithreaded
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Consisting of multiple threads (literal or figurative) woven together.
adj
Of an application program, having more than one thread of execution; thus taking advantage of multi-tasking operating systems and hardware.
adj
Of a programming language, able to produce such programs
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
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 Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English threaded English multithreaded From multi- + threaded.