"procedure division" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "procedure divisions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "procedure division (plural procedure divisions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
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            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science",
          "text": "The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information",
          "text": "The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems",
          "text": "In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute"
      ],
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          "COBOL",
          "COBOL"
        ],
        [
          "program",
          "program"
        ],
        [
          "instruction",
          "instruction"
        ],
        [
          "computer",
          "computer"
        ],
        [
          "execute",
          "execute"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "procedure division"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "procedure divisions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "procedure division (plural procedure divisions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science",
          "text": "The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information",
          "text": "The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems",
          "text": "In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute"
      ],
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          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "COBOL",
          "COBOL"
        ],
        [
          "program",
          "program"
        ],
        [
          "instruction",
          "instruction"
        ],
        [
          "computer",
          "computer"
        ],
        [
          "execute",
          "execute"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
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    }
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  "word": "procedure division"
}