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title: "What is a thread in Operating System?"  
description: "What is a thread in Operating System?"  
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published: 2022-04-04  
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# What is a thread in Operating System?

What is a thread in Operating System?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- In an [**operating**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95231/how-do-i-fix-outlook-s-operation-failed-attachment-error) system, **a thread** is the smallest unit of computation that may be done. A thread resides within a process in most modern operating systems, which means that a single process can include numerous threads.
- The lightweight process is also known as a thread. By dividing a process into many threads, parallelism can be achieved. Multiple tabs in a browser, for example, can represent different threads. MS Word makes use of numerous threads: one to format the text, another to receive inputs, and so on.

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