Multiprogramming, Multiprocressing, Multitasking, Multithreading.
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Multi = many. Multiprogramming and multitasking are more or less referring to doing something in parallel. Multiprocessing and multihtreading are more specific. Which a process being made up of different threads depending on the language and the system threads and processes might be more or less restricted and might have more or less information that is shared or not shared between two things running in parallel.
But in general these describe intentions to make a program run parallel to cut execution time or avoid freezing the display and so on.
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