What is the difference between a process and a thread?

Question

What is the technical difference between a process and a thread?

I get the feeling a word like \'process\' is overused and there are also hardware and software threa

Answer 1

1. Basically, a thread is a part of a process without process thread wouldn't able to work.
2. A thread is lightweight whereas the process is heavyweight.
3. communication between process requires some Time whereas thread requires less time.
4. Threads can share the same memory area whereas process lives in separate.