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script

(1) A program written in a general-purpose programming language. Such languages are typically interpreted and less comprehensive than full-blown compiled languages. See scripting language and interpreter.

(2) A program written in a special-purpose language such as used in a communications program or word processor. Such languages are typically interpreted. See macro language, scripting language and interpreter.

(3) A typeface that looks like continuously flowing handwriting (not hand printing) or calligraphy.

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script

1. written copy for the use of performers in films and plays

2. Law

a. an original or principal document

b. (esp in England) a will or codicil or the draft for one

3. Computing a series of instructions that is executed by a computer program

4. an answer paper in an examination

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script [skript]

(computer science)

An executable list of commands written in a programming language.

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1.		SCRIPT - An early system on the IBM 702. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
2.		SCRIPT - A real-time language. ["A Communication Abstraction Mechanism and its Verification", N. Francez et al, Sci Comp Prog 6(1):35-88 (1986)].
3.	(language)	script - A program written in a scripting language, but see Ousterhout's dichotomy.