How do you differentiate between process and thread?

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Process	Thread
The process is admitted as an occurrence of the computer program that is being executed.	The thread is known as the COMPONENT of the process that is CONSIDERED the SMALLEST execution unit.
The process is not lightweight	Threads are light-weighted
Creation of process takes more time	Creation of thread takes less time
The process does not share the data	Threads share the data with each other
In CONTEXT switching, the process takes more time.	In context switching, the thread takes less time.

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