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PROGRAMMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something
Synonyms:
computer programing; computer programming; programing; programming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Setting an order and time for planned events
Synonyms:
programing; programming; scheduling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb programme
Context examples:
Issue associated with the acquisition of computer programming codes that can replicate and spread from one computer system to another thereby leading to damaged software, hardware and data.
(Application Security Issue Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)
In addition to the effects of adult lifestyle, there is already evidence that the gene-environment interaction before birth may be just as, if not more, important in ‘programming’ future heart health and heart disease.
(Heart disease risk begins in the womb, University of Cambridge)
The Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with design and programming of relational databases for clinical, population and other large-scale studies, development and supervision of a sophisticated data communication and reporting systems, software development for analyzing and interpreting data generated from clinical trials, population studies, microarray and proteomics technologies and other types of translational research.
(Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
RNAs carry information between protein and DNA in cells, and Professor Jaramillo has proved that these molecules can be produced and organised into tailor-made sequences of commands, similar to codes for computer software, which feed specific instructions into cells, programming them to do what we want.
(Cells Programmed Like Computers to Fight Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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