system program
Computing
noun
A low-level program that controls the operations of a computer system, as an operating system, device driver, or compiler; contrasted with application program.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Proceedings 11th Association Computing Machinery National Meeting.
- double knitting
- double lock
- double meaning
- double napoleon
- double negation
- double negative
- doubleness
- double obelisk
- double obelus
- double or quits (double or nothing)
- double-park
- double play
- double plugger
- Ticonderoga
- tic-tac
- tic-tac-toe
- t.i.d.
- tidal
- tidal basin
- tidal bore
- tidal farm
- tidally
- tidal wave
- tidbit
- tiddledywink