# Thread (computing) ![rw-book-cover](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Multithreaded_process.svg/1200px-Multithreaded_process.svg.png) ## 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))