multithreaded software

noun

UK /ˌmʌltiˈθrɛdɪd ˈsɒftwɛə/

US /ˌmʌltiˈθrɛdɪd ˈsɔːftwɛr/

Software that can do several jobs at the same time.

The video game uses multithreaded software to load levels while playing music.

SYNONYMS

concurrent software parallel software multi-threaded program threaded application

RELATED WORDS

thread concurrency parallelism processor multitasking

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A program designed to run multiple threads within a single process.

The server runs multithreaded software to handle many users at once.

3. Applications that split work into threads for faster performance.

Multithreaded software makes photo editing much quicker on modern computers.

4. Software built to use several CPU cores simultaneously.

Engineers optimized the multithreaded software to use all eight cores.