computer programme - (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 anti-virus program - a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread 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 patch - a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program 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 job control - a program that is called to prepare each job to be run 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 search engine - a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) 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 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" |