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program

2 verb
     
Related topics: Computers
program2 past tense and past participle programmed, present participle programming [transitive]
1TDTD to give a computer a set of instructions that it can use to perform a particular operation
program something to do something
attempts to program computers to produce and understand speech
Any large high-speed computer can be programmed to learn.
2XX the American spelling of programme
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