| Subject | French | English |
| comp., MS | composant à thread cloisonné | apartment-threaded component (A COM component that resides on a single thread of execution. Apartment-threaded components rely on COM to synchronize calls to them. All COM objects created with Visual Basic are apartment threaded) |
| comp., MS | modèle de thread cloisonné | apartment threading model (A COM threading model where all calls to an object occur on one thread. In apartment threading, COM synchronizes and marshals calls) |
| comp., MS | thread cloisonné | apartment threading (A COM threading model where all calls to an object occur on one thread. In apartment threading, COM synchronizes and marshals calls) |
| comp., MS | thread de distribution ramifiée | fan-out thread (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 | thread de détection de média | media sense thread (The thread, or object within a process, that detects the presence of media) |
| comp., MS | thread de travail | worker thread (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) |
| comp., MS | thread en attente | waiting thread (A thread whose execution is blocked while waiting for a wait function to return) |
| comp., MS | thread unique cloisonné | single-threaded apartment (An apartment that consists of exactly one thread) |
| industr., construct. | thread weave | thread waste |