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If they are nodes, then each one is an individual process. There will be as many processes as there are nodes.
If they are nodelets, then each is loaded into an existing nodelet manager process as a dynamic library providing a function to call. In this case there will only be one process per nodelet manager.
Here is the place in the roslaunch
source relevant to starting node processes.