SYSTEM COMMAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does system command mean? 

• SYSTEM COMMAND (noun)
  The noun SYSTEM COMMAND has 1 sense:

1. a computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program

  Familiarity information: SYSTEM COMMAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTEM COMMAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("system command" is a kind of...):

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)