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PROGRAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does programing mean? 

PROGRAMING (noun)
  The noun PROGRAMING has 2 senses:

1. setting an order and time for planned eventsplay

2. creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do somethingplay

  Familiarity information: PROGRAMING used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROGRAMING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Setting an order and time for planned events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

programing; programming; scheduling

Hypernyms ("programing" is a kind of...):

planning (an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action)

Derivation:

program (arrange a program of or for)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

computer programing; computer programming; programing; programming

Hypernyms ("programing" is a kind of...):

creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)

Domain member category:

link ((computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list)

kludge (a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together))

library; program library; subroutine library ((computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use)

techie; tekki (a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing))

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

logic programing; logic programming (creating a program that enables the computer to reason logically)

object-oriented programing; object-oriented programming (creating a program that can use and support objects)

Derivation:

program (write a computer program)


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