Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - program

 I. noun  Etymology: French ~me agenda, public notice, from Greek ~ma, from prographein to write before, from pro- before + graphein to write — more at carve  Date: 1633  1. Late Latin ~ma, from Greek a public notice  2.  a. a brief usually printed outline of the order to be followed, of the features to be presented, and the persons participating (as in a public performance)  b. the performance of a ~; especially a performance broadcast on radio or television  3. a plan or system under which action may be taken toward a goal  4. curriculum  5. prospectus, syllabus  6.  a. a plan for the ~ming of a mechanism (as a computer)  b. a sequence of coded instructions that can be inserted into a mechanism (as a computer)  c. a sequence of coded instructions (as genes or behavioral responses) that is part of an organism  II. transitive verb  also ~me  (-grammed or -gramed; -gramming or -graming)  Date: 1896  1.  a. to arrange or furnish a ~ of or for ; bill  b. to enter in a ~  2. to work out a sequence of operations to be performed by (a mechanism) ; provide with a ~  3.  a. to insert a ~ for (a particular action) into or as if into a mechanism  b. to control by or as if by a ~  c.  (1) to code in an organism's ~  (2) to provide with a biological ~ cells ~med to synthesize hemoglobin  4. to predetermine the thinking, behavior, or operations of as if by computer ~ming children are ~med into violence — Lisa A. Richette  • ~mability noun  • ~mable adjective or noun