Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The designing, scheduling, or planning of a program, as in broadcasting.
  • noun Broadcast programs considered as a group.
  • noun The writing of a computer program.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of program.
  • noun broadcasting The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program / programme
  • noun brain-washing
  • noun computing The act of writing a computer program.
  • noun The software that controls a machine, or the logic or expressed in such software; operating instructions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something
  • noun setting an order and time for planned events

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Examples

  • I find it humorous that anyone would defend some ribbing of the OS Marketshare "bully", particularly since Easter Eggs in programming is a longstanding tradition.

    Smug Ugly - Anil Dash 2007

  • One of the problems that exists in programming is trying to satisfy all tastes.

    The Future of Canadian Television 1961

  • Unfortunately his programming is a shoddy and he ends up destroying the planet instead.

    REVIEW: Recursion by Tony Ballantyne 2007

  • Unfortunately his programming is a shoddy and he ends up destroying the planet instead.

    May 2007 2007

  • Essentially the programming is a compendium of the highlights of the American electronic media.

    Blood and Motherly Advice 1997

  • It encourages the network's inertial tendency in programming, which is to treat (and pay) the stars like stars but be ruthless the minute their popularity begins to flag, and not to get locked into a large permanent payroll for any show.

    Anchors Away 1988

  • It encourages the network's inertial tendency in programming, which is to treat (and pay) the stars like stars but be ruthless the minute their popularity begins to flag, and not to get locked into a large permanent payroll for any show.

    Anchors Away 1988

  • This fall, MyTV launched what it calls a programming service.

    C - Advertising News 2010

  • This fall, MyTV launched what it calls a programming service.

    B&C - Advertising News 2010

  • This fall, MyTV launched what it calls a programming service.

    B&C - Advertising News 2010

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  • Me: What's with all the wars?

    God: it came with my programming.

    Me: Reprogram, Dude-Major!

    God: What color are your eyes?

    - from a conversation with a chatbot known as iGod.

    February 16, 2009

  • My adjectival use: 'That would be a computer programming language.'

    August 23, 2011