"When there are several independent paths of execution within a program. Each thread may have access to the main memory and resources of the entire program." (Marcus Green & Bill Brogden, "Java 2™ Programmer Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam CX-310-035)", 2003)
"Concurrent execution of multiple threads." (Max Domeika, "Software Development for Embedded Multi-core Systems", 2011)
"Executing multiple threads within a single process, either multitasking on a single central processing unit (CPU) or simultaneously on multiple cores." (Rod Stephens, "Start Here!™ Fundamentals of Microsoft® .NET Programming", 2011)
"The act of having a program that allows more than one thread of control to be active at a time. This effectively allows multiple instructions to execute simultaneously. This is a form of shared-memory parallelism." (Mark C Lewis, "Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala", 2012)
"A mode of operation in which the operating system can run different parts of a program, called threads, simultaneously." (IBM, "Informix Servers 12.1", 2014)
"Applications that can carry out multiple activities simultaneously by generating different instruction sets (threads)." (Adam Gordon, "Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK" 4th Ed., 2015)
"A term used to describe both a facility provided by the operating system which allows an application to create threads of execution within a process, and applications whose architecture takes advantage of the multi-threading provided by the operating system." (Microfocus)
"Multithreading is concurrent processing of more than one message (or similar service request) by an application program." (Gartner)
"Multithreading is the ability of a program or an operating system process to manage its use by more than one user at a time and to even manage multiple requests by the same user without having to have multiple copies of the programming running in the computer." (Techtarget)
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