Program

English Meaning

Same as Programme.

1. A listing of the order of events and other pertinent information for a public presentation.
2. The presentation itself: a program of piano pieces.
3. A scheduled radio or television show.
4. An ordered list of events to take place or procedures to be followed; a schedule: a program of physical therapy for a convalescent.
5. 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).
6. A course of academic study; a curriculum.
7. A plan or system of academic and related or ancillary activities: a work-study program.
8. A plan or system of nonacademic extracurricular activities: the football program.
9. A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations.
10. An instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
11. To include or schedule in a program: program a new musical composition.
12. To design a program for; schedule the activities of.
13. To provide (a machine) with a set of coded working instructions.
14. To train to perform automatically in a desired way, as if programming a machine: programmed the children to use perfect table manners.
15. To prepare an instructional sequence for (material to be taught) in programmed instruction.