The concept of a process in an operating system embodies two primary characteristics, one of which is:

Resource Ownership and Scheduling execution

Explanation:

In process characteristic the characteristic is

In Resource ownership, the OS performs a protection function where unwanted interference in processes are with resources

In scheduling execution, the process has execution state and scheduled. They can be separated by resource ownership.

The dispatching of the process is the lightweight process, and it is multi-threading. The ability of the operating system supports the single concurrent process.

The process is a unit in the resource protection and protected the CPU and other processes. It contains the multiple thread execution

Each thread contains the running, ready state and saved the thread context and access the memory. Some necessary activities of the various threads are the same address space and the resources.