Multiprocessing

Under multiprocessing refers

• the ability of a multiprocessor system to actually execute more than one process simultaneously ;
• the ability of a computer to actually work on more than one process simultaneously (a processor with several cores), see multiprocessing system / multiprocessing
• hardware-side multithreading , which is similar to an extremely hardware-related time slice method (only one "real" processor core, but several "logical" cores)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.