single thread

noun

computing the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption

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It was a fearful moment—a moment in which Pawnee Brown's life hung by a single thread.

The whole is in fact composed of one single thread, but arranged in two distinct modes.

He spins a single thread long enough to reach across and then trusts to the wind.

The chain stitch when perfectly done should look like the stitch made by a single-thread machine.

The two chief types of machines are the lock stitch, using double thread, and the chain or loop stitch, using a single thread.

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