PROGRAMMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does programming mean? 

• PROGRAMMING (noun)
  The noun PROGRAMMING has 2 senses:

1. setting an order and time for planned events

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

  Familiarity information: PROGRAMMING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGRAMMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Setting an order and time for planned events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

programing; programming; scheduling

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

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

Derivation:

programme (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 ("programming" 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 "programming"):

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:

programme (write a computer program)

 Context examples 

A method for obtaining an optimal programming algorithm.

(Genetic Programming, NCI Thesaurus)

The goal of the project is to build a vocabulary server accessed through a well-structured application programming interface (API) capable of accessing and distributing vocabularies as commodity resources.

(LexBIG, NCI Thesaurus)

How computer programming objects are related to other computer programming objects.

(Object Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

An interpreted programming language for performing numerical computations for scientific computing.

(Octave Programming Language, NCI Thesaurus)

Areas of support are, but not limited to: study design, data collection, quality control and analysis, software and measurement error models development, statistical programming, and interpretation and dissemination of results.

(Epidemiology and Cancer Control Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with programming of calendar dates and/or time as a factor in the operation of a medical device.

(Date-Related Software Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

As in computer programming, context namespaces are intended to allow multiple knowledge bases to reside in the same physical database.

(Namespace, NCI Thesaurus)

In object-oriented programming, an object is a self-contained entity that consists of both data and procedures to manipulate the data.

(Computer Programming Object, NCI Thesaurus)

A standard that specifies the nomenclature and shared semantics for a collection of data types commonly occurring in programming languages and software interfaces.

(ISO 11404, NCI Thesaurus)

The main contributions of the design produced by the UGR include its compact size and the programming of an Android app that enables it to be used by non-specialists via an intuitive menu.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)