programming

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹəmɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: pro‧gram‧ming

Noun

programming (usually uncountable, plural programmings)

1. (broadcasting) The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme.

   The network changed its programming to mess with DVRs again.

2. The design and scheduling of a performance such as ballet.
   • 2000, Dance Reviews, page 218:

     Now it has become a regular part of City Ballet's programming this season.

3. (computing) The act of writing a computer program.

   Management wanted to know how much programming the project would need.

4. The software that controls a machine, or the logic expressed in such software; operating instructions.

   A robot's programming doesn't allow for love.

5. Brain-washing.
6. (psychology) A conditioned response.
   • 2016, David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden, page 142:

     Together with this is the influence of an infinite number of neurotransmitters, neurohormones, environmental hazards, and accidental programmings.

Hyponyms

• broadcast programming
• computer programming

 

Derived terms

• linear programming
• metaprogramming
• programming language
• user-programming

 

Translations

broadcasting: designing, scheduling, or planning of a radio or TV program

• Finnish: ohjelmisto (fi)

brain-washing — see brain-washing

act of writing a computer program

• Albanian: programim (sq) m
• Arabic: بَرْمَجَة‎ (ar) f (barmaja)
• Armenian: ծրագրավորում (hy) (cragravorum)
• Azerbaijani: proqramlaşdırma
• Belarusian: праграмава́нне n (prahramavánnje), праграмі́раванне n (prahramíravannje)
• Bulgarian: програми́ране n (programírane)
• Catalan: programació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編程序／编程序 (biān chéngxù), 編程／编程 (zh) (biānchéng), 程序設計／程序设计 (zh) (chéngxù shèjì)

• Czech: programování n
• Danish: programmering c
• Dutch: programmeren (nl) n
• Estonian: programmeerimine
• Finnish: ohjelmointi (fi)
• French: programmation (fr) f
• Georgian: პროგრამირება (ṗrogramireba)
• German: Programmierung (de) f, Programmieren n
• Greek: προγραμματισμός (el) m (programmatismós)
• Hebrew: תִּכְנוּת‎ (he) m (tikhnut)
• Hindi: क्रमादेशन m (kramādeśan)
• Hungarian: programozás (hu)
• Icelandic: forritun (is) f
• Indonesian: pemrograman (id)
• Italian: programmazione (it) f
• Japanese: プログラミング (ja) (puroguramingu)
• Kazakh: бағдарламалау (bağdarlamalau)
• Khmer: ផ្រូក្រាមមីង (phroukraammiing)
• Korean: 프로그래밍 (peurogeuraeming)
• Kyrgyz: программалоо (programmaloo)
• Latvian: programmēšana f
• Lithuanian: programavimas (lt) m
• Macedonian: програми́рање n (programíranje)
• Malay: pengaturcaraan (ms), pemprograman (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: программчлал (programmčlal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: programmering (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: programmering f

• Persian: برنامه‌نویسی‎ (fa) (barnâme-nevisi)
• Polish: programowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: programação (pt) f
• Romanian: programare (ro) f
• Russian: программи́рование (ru) n (programmírovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: програмирање n

  Roman: programiranje n

• Slovak: programovanie (sk) n
• Slovene: programiranje n
• Spanish: programación (es) f
• Swedish: programmering (sv) c
• Tajik: барноманависӣ (barnomanavisī)
• Thai: การเขียนโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์ (gaan-kǐian bproo-grɛm kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)
• Turkish: programlama (tr)
• Turkmen: programmirleme
• Ukrainian: програмува́ння n (prohramuvánnja)
• Uzbek: programmalashtirish, programmalash (uz)
• Vietnamese: lập trình (vi)

software

• Finnish: ohjelmisto (fi)

Verb

programming

1. present participle of program
2. present participle of programme

   I was programming a new module for the software package.

   He was programming the VCR.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of computer programming

Further reading

• programming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia