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Date: 1600-1700
Language: French
Origin: programme, from Greek, from prographein 'to write before'

program

1 noun
     
Related topics: Computers
pro‧gram1 W1 [countable]
1TDTD a set of instructions given to a computer to make it perform an operation:
a word processing program
2XX the American spelling of programme
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