procedure

procedure

1. the established mode or form of conducting the business of a legislature, the enforcement of a legal right, etc.

2. Computing another name for subroutine

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procedure

[prə′sē·jər]

(computer science)

A sequence of actions (or computer instructions) which collectively accomplish some desired task.

In particular, a subroutine that causes an effect external to itself.

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procedure

A series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft under instrument flight conditions from the beginning of the initial approach to a landing or to a point from which a landing may be made visually or the missed approach procedure is initiated.

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procedure

subroutine

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procedure

(1) Manual procedures are human tasks.

(2) Machine procedures are lists of programs or operating system functions to be executed. A mainframe uses job control language (JCL). Unix systems use shell scripts. Windows machines use batch files.

(3) In programming, a procedure is another term for a subroutine or function.

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