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Quick Refresh : Java : Multi-threading Q1) What is a Thread? Ans) In Java, "thread" means two different things: An instance of class java.lang.Thread. A thread of execution. An instance of Thread is just…an object. Like any other object in Java, it has variables and methods, and lives and dies on the heap. But a thread of execution is an individual process (a "lightweight" process) that has its own call stack. In Java, there is one thread per call stack—or, to think of it in reverse, one call stack per thread. Even if you don't create any new threads in your program, threads are back there running. The main() method, that starts the whole ball rolling, runs in one thread, called (surprisingly) the main thread. If you looked at the main call stack (and you can, any time you get a stack trace from something that happens after main begins, but not within another thread), you'd see that main() is the first method on the stack— the method a...