program

Meaning

Noun

1. A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
2. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
3. A set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate.
4. A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
5. A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.
6. A particular mindset or method of doing things.
7. A custom tracklist.

Verb

1. To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
2. To develop (software) by writing program code.
3. To put together the schedule of an event.
4. To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
5. To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.

Hyphenated as

pro‧gram

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæm/

Etymology

From French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “I set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of programma.

Sentences

Each discipline's program runs two years in length .

His collecting program added important Paleozoic specimens to the Walker Museum of Paleontology .