procedural
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6.4
- adjective
- /prəˈsiːdʒərəl/
- Specialized
:
procedimental
- Would clever 9th graders who can write procedural programs in Python be able to answer these questions?
- declarative and procedural
Examples
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Second, procedural knowledge is the technique one uses to solve a problem.
Academic text (2000) -
The objects can consist of declarative elements, such as variables with associated values, or procedural elements, called methods.
Academic text (1992) -
For example, this model can include procedural and declarative elements for both data and knowledge representations.
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Information systems typically contain both declarative and procedural components.
Academic text (1992) -
I don't have a problem with procedural algorithms; sometimes they are the most efficient method.
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We designed robots and sketched out landscapes, with procedural tools making it possible.
Blog text (8) -
Frames represent declarative knowledge and productions represent procedural knowledge.
Academic text (2004) -
The object-oriented events accounting information system developed here also contains declarative and procedural components.
Academic text (1992) -
Particular to this discussion, the beginning of the rapprochement sub-phase corresponds to the transition between subjective and procedural knowledge.
Academic text (2000) -
The game uses procedural generation to create unique landscapes every time you play.
Synonyms
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6.9
Using a set of steps or rules to solve a problem, often by a computer
How Automated
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4.0
- Specialized
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6.4
- Specialized
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6.9
- Specialized
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Procedural comes from Latin parts pro- 'forward' and cedere 'to go', and it shares the root with procedure and process. In computing it means something made by a set of automatic steps or rules, so procedural content is produced by a method rather than by hand.