COMPUTER PROGRAM

Pronunciation (US):

• COMPUTER PROGRAM (noun)
  The noun COMPUTER PROGRAM has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute

  Familiarity information: COMPUTER PROGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

• COMPUTER PROGRAM (noun)

Meaning:

(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

computer program; computer programme; program; programme

Context example:

the program required several hundred lines of code

Hypernyms ("computer program" is a kind of...):

computer software; package; software; software package; software program; software system ((computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory)

Meronyms (parts of "computer program"):

function; procedure; routine; subprogram; subroutine (a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program)

command; instruction; program line; statement ((computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computer program"):

anti-virus program (a computer program that checks you computer for viruses and prevents their spread)

relocatable program (a program that can be located in different parts of memory at different times)

reusable program (a program that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly)

search engine (a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet))

self-adapting program (a program that can change its performance in response to its environment)

spider; wanderer (a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine)

spreadsheet (a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen)

stored program (a program that is stored in the memory of the computer that executes it)

executive program; supervisor; supervisory program (a program that controls the execution of other programs)

syntax checker (a program to check natural language syntax)

system program; systems program; systems software (a program (as an operating system or compiler or utility program) that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer)

text-matching (a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text)

translating program; translator (a program that translates one programming language into another)

service program; utility; utility program ((computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer)

LISP program (a program written in LISP)

FORTRAN program (a program written in FORTRAN)

tagger; tagging program (a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter)

parser (a computer program that divides code up into functional components)

application; application program; applications programme (a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task)

loop (a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied)

malevolent program (a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects)

patch (a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program)

assembler; assembly program (a program to convert assembly language into machine language)

checking program (a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errors)

compiler; compiling program ((computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program)

debugger (a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors)

interface; user interface ((computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system)

interpreter; interpretive program ((computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time)

job control (a program that is called to prepare each job to be run)

library program (a program in a program library)

monitor program; monitoring program (a program that observes and regulates and controls or verifies the operations of a data-processing system)

object program; target program (a fully compiled or assembled program ready to be loaded into the computer)

source program (a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language)

C program (a program written in C)