Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

environment division

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

Syllables: en-vi-ron-men-t -di-vi-sion
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

8

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain other specifications.

Example Sentences

"The developers of Cobol made explicit recognition of this problem by providing an environment division for programs, into which as many as possible of the machine- dependent aspects of a process are collected."
"The environment division comprises two sections: the configuration section which holds information about the way in which a specific machine implements COBOL, and the input-output section, which describes external devices that will be accessed during execution of the program."
"The environment division is the link between the COBOL program and the computer and input-output devices the program uses."

Inflected Forms

environment divisions (plural)

Questions

What does environment division mean?: The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain other specifications.

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