computer programme

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computer programme - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"computer program, programme, programcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuressoftware, software package, software program, software system, computer software, package - (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; "the market for software is expected to expand"anti-virus program - a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spreadapplication program, applications programme, application - a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different word processing applications"binary program, binary - a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system; "the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems"loop - a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfiedmalevolent program - a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effectspatch - a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer programassembler, assembly program - a program to convert assembly language into machine languagechecking program - a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errorscompiling program, compiler - (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language programdebugger - a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errorsuser interface, 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 systeminterpretive program, interpreter - (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a timejob control - a program that is called to prepare each job to be runlibrary program - a program in a program librarymonitor program, monitoring program - a program that observes and regulates and controls or verifies the operations of a data-processing systemobject program, target program - a fully compiled or assembled program ready to be loaded into the computersource program - a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine languageparser - a computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code"tagging program, tagger - a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matterrelocatable program - a program that can be located in different parts of memory at different timesreusable program - a program that can be loaded once and executed repeatedlyWeb Map Server, Web Map Service - a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic informationsearch 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 environmentspider, 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 enginespreadsheet - a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screenstored program - a program that is stored in the memory of the computer that executes itexecutive program, supervisory program, supervisor - a program that controls the execution of other programssyntax checker - a program to check natural language syntaxsystem 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 computertext-matching - a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text; "Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text"translating program, translator - a program that translates one programming language into anotherservice program, utility program, utility - (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"