| n. | 1. | a sequence of instructions, stored in any medium, that can be interpreted and executed by a computer; - called most frequently a |
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| Noun | 1. |  computer program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures software, 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 spread application 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 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 compiling program, compiler - (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 user 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 system interpretive program, interpreter - (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; "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 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, supervisory program, supervisor - 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; "Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text" |
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computer program n → programa m informático or de ordenador
computer program n → programme m informatique
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