NOUN | process | computer operation, machine operation | an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform |
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Meaning | An elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform. | |
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Synonym | machine operation | |
Narrower | floating-point operation, flop | An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers |
retrieval | (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory | |
storage | (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic ... / magnetic tape or disk | |
Broader | operation | (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) |
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