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control flow

control flow noun: the order in which individual statements, instructions or function calls of an imperative program are executed or evaluated.

Noun

control flow (uncountable)

  1. The order in which individual statements, instructions or function calls of an imperative program are executed or evaluated.

Questions about control flow

What does control flow mean?
Control flow means the order in which individual statements, instructions or function calls of an imperative program are executed or evaluated.
What part of speech is control flow?
Control flow is a noun.

Words near control flow in the dictionary

  1. control coupling
  2. control couplings
  3. control engineering
  4. control experiment
  5. control experiments
  6. control flow
  7. control freak
  8. control freakery
  9. control freakism
  10. control freaks
  11. control function

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