statement

statement (ˈsteɪtmənt)
—n
1.	the act of stating
2.	something that is stated, esp a formal prepared announcement or reply
3.	law a declaration of matters of fact, esp in a pleading
4.	an account containing a summary of bills or invoices and displaying the total amount due
5.	an account prepared by a bank for each of its clients, usually at regular intervals, to show all credits and debits since the last account and the balance at the end of the period
6.	music the presentation of a musical theme or idea, such as the subject of a fugue or sonata
7.	a computer instruction written in a source language, such as FORTRAN, which is converted into one or more machine code instructions by a compiler
8.	logic Compare proposition the content of a sentence that affirms or denies something and may be true or false; what is thereby affirmed or denied abstracted from the act of uttering it. Thus I am warm said by me and you are warm said to me make the same statement
9.	(Brit) education a legally binding account of the needs of a pupil with special educational needs and the provisions that will be made to meet them
—vb
10.	to assess (a pupil) with regard to his or her special educational needs

statement definition

programming
A single instruction in a computer program written in a procedural language. Typical examples are an assignment statement, an if statement (conditional), a loop statement ("while", "for", "repeat", "until", etc.), a procedure call, a procedure exit, function return statement, switch statement or goto statement.
In many languages, one or more simple statements can be executed sequentially as a compound statement, e.g. bracketed between "begin" and "end" or "" and "" which can then appear in place of a simple statement in an "if" or loop.
Each statement in a high-level language will typically be translated into several machine code instructions by a compiler or, alternatively, executed by an interpreter.
(2009-10-23)