A thread is a large number of of very thin fibers spun together, used in the manufacture of textiles and in sewing. See yarn. The helical blades of a screw are also called "threads". The term "thread" is used in computer programming as well, where it is short for "thread of execution". See Thread (computer programming). A string of consecutive message postings to a newsgroup, mailing list or other forum are also known as a thread. In fiction, Thread is an extremely destructive mindless alien spore that appears throughout Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. See Thread (Pern). This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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