A listing of the order of events and other pertinent information for a public presentation.
The presentation itself: a program of piano pieces.
A course of academic study; a curriculum.
A plan or system of academic and related or ancillary activities: a work-study program.
A plan or system of nonacademic extracurricular activities: the football program.
A scheduled radio or television show.
An ordered list of events to take place or procedures to be followed; a schedule: a program of physical therapy for a convalescent.
A system of services, opportunities, or projects, usually designed to meet a social need: "Working parents rely on the center's after-school latchkey program"(New York Times).
A course of academic study; a curriculum.
A plan or system of academic and related or ancillary activities: a work-study program.
A plan or system of nonacademic extracurricular activities: the football program.
A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations.
An instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
tr.v.
pro·grammed or pro·gramed, pro·gram·ming or pro·gram·ing, pro·grams
To include or schedule in a program: program a new musical composition.
To design a program for; schedule the activities of.
To provide (a machine) with a set of coded working instructions.
To train to perform automatically in a desired way, as if programming a machine: programmed the children to use perfect table manners.
To prepare an instructional sequence for (material to be taught) in programmed instruction.
[Late Latin programma, public notice, from Greek programma, programmat-, from prographein, to write publicly : pro-, forth; see pro-2 + graphein, to write; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.] pro·gram'ma·bil'i·ty n., pro'gram'ma·ble adj.
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