1a. A listing of the order of events and other pertinent information for a public presentation. b. The presentation itself: a program of piano pieces.2. A scheduled radio or television show. 3. An ordered list of events to take place or procedures to be followed; a schedule: a program of physical therapy for a convalescent.4. A system of services, opportunities, or projects, usually designed to meet a social need: “Working parents rely on the center's after-school latchkey program” (New York Times). 5a. A course of academic study; a curriculum. b. A plan or system of academic and related or ancillary activities: a work-study program.c. A plan or system of nonacademic extracurricular activities: the football program.6. A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations. 7. An instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: pro·grammed or pro·gramed, pro·gram·ming or pro·gram·ing, pro·grams or pro·grams 1. To include or schedule in a program: program a new musical composition.2. To design a program for; schedule the activities of. 3. To provide (a machine) with a set of coded working instructions. 4. To train to perform automatically in a desired way, as if programming a machine: programmed the children to use perfect table manners.5. To prepare an instructional sequence for (material to be taught) in programmed instruction.
ETYMOLOGY:
Late Latin programma, public notice, from Greek programma, programmat-, from prographein, to write publicly : pro-, forth; see pro–2 + graphein, to write; see gerbh- in Appendix I.
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