Routine

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Routine \Rou*tine"\, n. [F., fr. route a path, way, road. See
     {Route}, {Rote}repetition.]
     1. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or
        frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or
        offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered
        to by the mere force of habit.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  routine
       adj 1: occurring at fixed times or predictable intervals; "made her
              routine trip to the store"
       2: found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday
          scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite
          like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian
          commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: {everyday}, {mundane}, {quotidian},
           {unremarkable}, {workaday}]
       n 1: an unvarying or habitual method of procedure [syn: {modus
            operandi}]
       2: a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer
          program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she
          had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best
          numbers he ever did" [syn: {act}, {number}, {turn}, {bit}]
       3: a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
          [syn: {subroutine}, {subprogram}, {procedure}, {function}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  264 Moby Thesaurus words for "routine":
     Indian file, MO, accustomed, act, afterpiece, algorithm, approach,
     arranged, arrangement, array, articulation, assigned, attack,
     automatic, average, banal, bank, beat, beaten, beaten path,
     besetting, bit, boring, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, businesslike,
     buzz, catena, catenation, central, chain, chain reaction, chaining,
     chaser, chinoiserie, cliched, common, concatenation, concord,
     connection, consecution, constant, continuum, conventional, course,
     current, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, custom, customary,
     cycle, daily grind, deployment, descent, designated, disposal,
     disposition, divertimento, divertissement, dominant, drill, drone,
     endless belt, endless round, epidemic, epilogue, everyday, exode,
     exodus, expository scene, familiar, fashion, file, filiation,
     finale, form, formal, formation, formula, frequent, frequentative,
     gamut, gradation, grind, groove, guise, habit, habitual, hackneyed,
     harmonious, harmony, hoke act, hum, in hand, interlude,
     intermediary, intermediate, intermezzo, intermission, introduction,
     jog trot, layout, line, line of action, lineage, lines, lineup,
     manner, manner of working, many, many times, marshaling, mean,
     means, mechanical, medial, median, mediocre, medium, method,
     methodical, methodology, middle-of-the-road, middling, mode,
     mode of operation, mode of procedure, moderate, modus operandi,
     monotone, monotonous, nexus, normal, not rare, number,
     of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, order, ordered,
     orderly, ordinary, organization, pandemic, part, pattern, peace,
     pendulum, performance, perfunctory, periodicity, persistent, piece,
     plain, plan, plenum, popular, powder train, practice, predominant,
     predominating, prevailing, prevalent, procedure, proceeding,
     process, programmed, progression, prologue, proportion, queue,
     quiet, quietude, rampant, range, rank, recurrence, recurrent,
     recurring, red tape, red-tapeism, regnant, regular, regularity,
     reigning, repetitive, reticulation, rife, rotation, rote, round,
     row, ruling, run, run-of-the-mill, running, rut, scale, scene,
     schedule, scheduled, sequence, series, setup, shtick, single file,
     sketch, skit, song and dance, spectrum, squirrel cage,
     stand-up comedy act, standard, steady, stereotyped, string,
     striptease, structure, style, succession, swath, symmetrical,
     symmetry, system, systematic, tack, technique, tedious, the drill,
     the how, the way of, thick-coming, thing, thread, tier, tiresome,
     tone, track, train, tranquillity, treadmill, trite, turn,
     unchanging, uneventful, uniform, uniformity, unimaginative,
     uninteresting, unvaried, unvarying, usage, usual, way,
     well-ordered, well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn,
     well-worn groove, windrow, wise, wont, wonted
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  routine
       
          {subroutine}