# Why is the word "thread" not allowed on Meta?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [3월 1, 2018, 7:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156 "2018-03-01T19:24:50Z")
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### Author: ![notriddle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/notriddle/32/133055_2.png) [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [3월 3, 2018, 11:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-the-word-thread-not-allowed-on-meta/82156/7 "2018-03-03T23:04:34Z")

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> [@'Your post contains words that aren't allowed' ... but which ones?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-post-contains-words-that-arent-allowed-but-which-ones/81691/37):
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> as a programmer being denied that word does annoy me a lot

For context, he’s talking about these:

> **[Thread (computing)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing))**
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> In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system. In many cases, a thread is a component of a process. 
> The multiple threads of a given process may be executed concurrently (via multithreading capabilities), sharing resources such as memory, while different processes do not share these resources. In particular, the threads of a process share its execut...

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