(software engineering) Designing a complex software system as a composition of smaller parts.

(broadcasting, dated, chiefly US) A radio or television program that airs on a commercial station but does not have commercial sponsorship or advertising.

(programming) A declarative programming paradigm where changes to values are automatically propagated, without the need for explicit reassignment.

(programming paradigm) programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations, implementing architecture and dataflow principles.

(programming) A programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead, the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments.

(programming) A top-down approach in computer programming based on simple high-level structures, resembling pseudocode, that are gradually fleshed out with details.

(psychology) A field of study that attempts to build a set of transferable skills by programming the unconscious mind.

(computing) Any of a set of subroutines supplied with a language or system that can be called to perform standard mathematical functions efficiently

(computing) A function key whose function can be assigned by the user or by a program.

(programming) A programming paradigm that uses "objects" to design applications and computer programs.