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environment divisions

environment divisions is the plural of environment division.

Meaning of environment division

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

Questions about environment divisions

What is environment divisions the plural of?
Environment divisions is the plural of environment division.

Words near environment divisions in the dictionary

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

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