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routine

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A set of instructions that perform a task. Same as subroutine, module, procedure and function.

routine - subroutine
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Yes; it needed a few days after the taking of your departure for a ship's company to shake down into their places, and for the soothing deep-water ship routine to establish its beneficent sway.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
A very pleasant routine, with perhaps a slight tinge of sameness.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
--the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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