Why do we see multiple PID's related to same application/owner for http like this below. What does this mean?

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Why do we see multiple PID's related to same application/owner for http like this below. What does this mean?.

 $ ps -ef | grep httpd | grep -v grep
 apache    9619 20181  0 07:08 ?        00:00:03 /usr/sbin/httpd
 apache   10092 20181  0 Jan24 ?        00:00:07 /usr/sbin/httpd
 apache   13086 20181  0 06:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
 apache   13717 20181  0 Jan25 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
 apache   14730 20181  0 07:13 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
 apache   16359 20181  0 09:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
 root     20181     1  0  2011 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/httpd
 apache   21450 20181  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd

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