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PROGRAM LIBRARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does program library mean?
• PROGRAM LIBRARY (noun)
The noun PROGRAM LIBRARY has 1 sense:
1. (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use
Familiarity information: PROGRAM LIBRARY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
library; program library; subroutine library
Hypernyms ("program library" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meronyms (parts of "program library"):
library program (a program in a program library)
cataloged procedure (a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name)
library routine (a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library)
Domain category:
computer programing; computer programming; programing; programming (creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something)
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