procedure division
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute
Example Sentences
- "The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data."
- "The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution."
- "In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs."