a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread
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(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"
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a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different wo…
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different wo…
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a program to convert assembly language into machine language
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a system for automatically correcting text
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a computer program for automatically moderating an online forum or discussion
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run…
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a program written in C
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errors
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.any software program that runs on a user's local computer and accesses data stored on a remote computer.; "Your Web browser is a clien…
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines o…
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a program that controls the execution of other programs
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.a program written in FORTRAN
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.A graphic engine is a type of software used by application programs to draw graphics on computer display screens.; "The graphic engine…
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science, Education, Media and communication, Curriculum, Film and television.(computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact…
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a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different wo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal proce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: computer, science, sequence, instructions, interpret.(computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS
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