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MULTITHREADING

Specialty Definition: MULTITHREADING

DomainDefinition

Computing

Multithreading Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process. TL0 is an example of a threaded machine language. Dataflow computation (E.g. Id and SISAL) is an extreme form of multithreading. (1997-12-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MULTITHREADING

Specialty definitions using "MULTITHREADING": Concurrent Massey Hope ♦ multitasking, multithreaded ♦ Portable Forth Environment. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MULTITHREADING

DomainTitle

Books

  • .NET Multithreading (reference)

  • Advanced Topics in Dataflow Computing and Multithreading (reference)

  • Effective Multithreading in Os/2/Book and Disk (reference)

  • Multithreading Applications in Win32: The Complete Guide to Threads (reference)

  • Multithreading Programming Techniques (J. Ranade Workstation Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: MULTITHREADING

"MULTITHREADING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MULTITHREADING" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MULTITHREADING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

multithreading

21

multithreading support

5

in multithreading vb

3

multithreading squid

3

code multithreading source

3

c multithreading

3

kernel linux multithreading operating system

2

multithreading simultaneous

2

java multithreading

2

linux multithreading

2

in java multithreading

2

c++ in multithreading

2
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Modern Translation: MULTITHREADING

Language Translations for "MULTITHREADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

多工運作 . (various references)

   

Dutch

  

multithreading (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

monen sanoman samanaikainen käsittely (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program). (various references)

   

French

  

multitraitement de messages, multifile, traitement multifile de messages, traitement multifile. (various references)

   

Italian

  

caricamento multiplo (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ultithreadingmay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

multitratamento (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

multitratamiento (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flerprocessorarkitektur (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: MULTITHREADING

Misspellings

"MULTITHREADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mulitithreading. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MULTITHREADING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-n-r-t-t-u"

-3 letters: antheridium, elutriating, ingratitude, readmitting, unmitigated.

-4 letters: alightment, humiliated, intertidal, meditating, mithridate, multigrade, multigrain, multirange, mutilating, rudimental, trigeminal, ultimating.

-5 letters: admitting, demitting, dentalium, derailing, deratting, detailing, dithering, earthling, emulating, glutamine, granulite, gratitude, haltering, hardiment, heralding, humdinger, humiliate, interlaid, intimated, intimater, intituled, intrigued, iterating, lathering, ligatured, literatim, litigated, littering, luminaire, magnitude, mattering, mediating, militated, miniature.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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