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SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does software engineer mean? 

SOFTWARE ENGINEER (noun)
  The noun SOFTWARE ENGINEER has 1 sense:

1. a person who designs and writes and tests computer programsplay

  Familiarity information: SOFTWARE ENGINEER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOFTWARE ENGINEER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coder; computer programmer; programmer; software engineer

Hypernyms ("software engineer" is a kind of...):

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

computer user (a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

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

cracker (a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things)

hacker (a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm)

cyber-terrorist; cyberpunk (a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism)


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