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A running Java program is like a multiprocessing system, because it runs multiple processes that share time. However, a running Java program also is unlike a multiprocessing system, because all the processes share a single address space.
A thread is a process that shares a single address space with other processes. Each thread works independently, sharing time and a single address space with other threads.
Because Java supports threads, Java is said to be multithreaded.