| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| FORTRAN |
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| SYLLABICATION: | FOR·TRAN |
| PRONUNCIATION: | fôr tr n |
| NOUN: | A high-level programming language for problems that can be expressed algebraically, used mainly in mathematics, science, and engineering. | | ETYMOLOGY: | for(mula) + tran(slation).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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