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environment division

environment division 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.

Noun

environment division (plural environment divisions)

  1. 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.
    • 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.1964, Franz Alt, Advances in computers
    • 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.1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information

environment division meaning in Tamil

environment division in Tamil

சூழல் பகுதி

Forms of environment division

pluralenvironment divisions

Questions about environment division

What does environment division mean?
Environment division means 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.
What is environment division in Tamil?
Environment division in Tamil is சூழல் பகுதி. See Environment division meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is environment division?
Environment division is a noun.
What is the plural of environment division?
The plural of environment division is environment divisions.

Words near environment division in the dictionary

  1. environest
  2. environeth
  3. environing
  4. environings
  5. environment
  6. environment division
  7. environment divisions
  8. environment mapping
  9. environment variable
  10. environment variables
  11. environment-friendly

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