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noun
1.
a customary or regular course of procedure.
2.
commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office.
3.
regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
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an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!
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EXPANDComputers.
a.
a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.
b.
a series of operations performed by the computer.
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COLLAPSEan individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine.
adjective
7.
of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine: routine duties.
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dull or uninteresting; commonplace.
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Routine
is always a great word to know.
So is application. Does it mean:
| a card in a computer on which additional chips can be mounted to expand the computer's capabilities |
| a type of job or problem that lends itself to processing or solution by computer |
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Word Origin & History
routine
1676, from Fr. routine "usual course of action, beaten path" from route "way, path, course" (see route) + subst. suffix -ine. Theatrical sense is from 1926. The adj. is attested from 1817, from the noun.
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