program

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A radio or television show.

   Did you watch the news program last night?

2. 2
   noun

   A planned set of activities or services to achieve a goal.

   The city launched a new program to help young people find jobs.

3. 3
   noun

   A set of instructions that tells a computer what to do.

   He wrote a program to sort the files automatically.

4. 4
   noun

   A planned course of study at a school or university.

   She was accepted into the master's program in biology.

5. 5
   verb

   To give a computer or machine a set of instructions.

   You can program the heating to come on at seven.

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

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