| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | discussion thread | 讨论线程 (In an online forum, such as a newsgroup, a series of messages or articles in which replies to an message are nested directly under it instead of arranged in chronological or alphabetical order) |
| comp., MS | fan-out thread | 扇出线程 (A thread that creates multiple message copies and places them in the appropriate link queues. The dispatcher then triggers XFER OUT threads to process the fan-out message copies) |
| comp., MS | media sense thread | 媒体感知线程 (The thread, or object within a process, that detects the presence of media) |
| comp., MS | thread component | 线程组件 (An SMS/Configuration Manager program that runs as a thread of the SMS Executive service component. A thread component can be started and stopped through the SMS/Configuration Manager Service Manager) |
| comp., MS | Thread Count | 线程计数 (In Task Manager, the number of threads running in a process) |
| comp., MS | thread-safe | 线程安全 (Pertaining to multithreaded applications and how threads share and access data) |
| comp., MS | thread safety | 线程安全性 (The ability for multiple threads to access and share data in a correct way) |
| comp., MS | worker thread | 工作线程 (A thread commonly used to handle background tasks that the user should not have to wait for to continue using your application. Tasks such as recalculation and background printing are typically executed on worker threads) |