Usually means: Reusable code blocks within programs.
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  1. subroutines: Merriam-Webster
  2. subroutines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subroutines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Subroutines, subroutines: Wordnik
  5. subroutines: Wiktionary
  6. subroutines: Dictionary.com
  7. Subroutines: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Subroutines: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Subroutines: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Subroutines: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subroutine)

▸ noun:  (computer science) A section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task.
▸ Also see subroutine


Opposite:
main program, main routine, top-level routine

Types:
functions, methods, procedures, algorithms, more...

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Opposite:
main program, main routine, top-level routine

Types:
functions, methods, procedures, algorithms, more...




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