programme

verb

pro·gramme

chiefly British spelling of program

transitive verb

: to arrange or furnish a program of or for : bill

: to enter in a program

: to work out a sequence of operations to be performed by (a mechanism, such as a computer) : to provide with a program

: to insert a program for (a particular action) into or as if into a mechanism (such as a computer)

: to control by or as if by a program

c(1)

: to code in an organism's program

(2)

: to provide with a biological program

cells programmed to synthesize hemoglobin

: to predetermine the thinking, behavior, or operations of as if by computer programming

children are programmed into violence—

Lisa A. Richette

Examples of programme in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The lab will also partner with Digital Products and Services and other parts of CNN to develop and programme other experimental new services. —

Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 July 2024 Engineers have hit upon similar solutions when trying to programme independent robots that can find their own way around. —

Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2012

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