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    COMPUTER PROGRAM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Example:

    the program required several hundred lines of code

    Synonyms:

    computer program; computer programme; program; programme

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    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"):

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

    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)

    Web Map Server; Web Map Service (a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information)

    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)

    C program (a program written in C)

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

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

    binary; binary program (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)

    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)

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

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    Heyer developed a computer program, or algorithm, to convert the movement of large clouds of atoms and molecules of different elements and compounds, into music.

    (Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)

    This comparison has shown that certain stages in auditory processing in the computer program are similar to those performed by the brain.

    (Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

    Using Deep Learning, Dr. Finkbeiner’s team trained a computer program to analyze brain cells by showing it stained and unstained images.

    (Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)

    Second, the researchers applied those maps to a computer program that produces synthetic speech.

    (Scientists translate brain signals into speech sounds, National Institutes of Health)

    A pre-release version of a computer program.

    (Build, NCI Thesaurus)

    A computer program that uses statistics to predict whether a person has an inherited mutation (change) in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

    (BRCAPro, NCI Dictionary)

    The team put data from MESSENGER into a sophisticated computer program that allowed them to adjust parameters and figure out what the interior composition of Mercury must be like to match the way it spins and the way the spacecraft accelerated around it.

    (A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core, NASA)

    A computer program based on a two-state phylogenetic hidden Markov model (phylo-HMM) that works by fitting a phylo-HMM to the data by maximum likelihood, subject to constraints designed to calibrate the model across species groups, and then predicting conserved elements based on this model.

    (phastCon, NCI Thesaurus)


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