What does a context switch from one execution thread to another mean?

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In an article on habrahabr , I quote:

The system remembers the state (context) of each thread before switching to another thread, and restores it on returning to the execution of the thread. The context of the thread includes such parameters as the stack, a set of processor register values, the address of the command being executed, and so on ...