What is Difference between thread and process?

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a process is a program in execution.
a process creates threads.
a cpu has a single path for execution.
a thread is a medium to send the instruction from the ram
to the cpu for execution.
thread is a light weight process.
since process takes lot of time to create process id's so
threads are formed which works within the same process id.

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