- Thread: program unit that is executed independently
- Multiple threads run simultaneously
- Virtual machine executes each thread for short time slice
- Thread scheduler activates, deactivates threads
- Illusion of threads running in parallel
- Multiprocessor computers: threads actually run in parallel
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