# Thread (computing)

## Metadata
- Author: [[wikipedia.org]]
- Full Title: Thread (computing)
- Category: #articles
- Summary: This article is about the concurrency concept. For multithreading in hardware, see Multithreading (computer architecture).
- URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)
## Highlights
- In [computer science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science), a **thread** of [execution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_(computing)) is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a [scheduler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)), ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6reqdgec6dww99hx15qs3pr))
- In many cases, a thread is a component of a [process](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_(computing)). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6reqgxpg64kwqpsm66ycq21))