supervisory program
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈsuːpərvaɪzəri ˈprɒɡræm/
- Specialized
:
programa de supervisión
- Each maze runner reports its every attempted move; the supervisory program decides if there's a wall in the way and tells the maze runner if the attempt succeeded.
Examples
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The software team developed a new supervisory program to oversee the performance of their automated systems.
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The supervisory program measures the time they take to run them.
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Services that had always been provided by the supervisory program vanished.
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Our supervisory program itself, we've confirmed, is unchanged.
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A supervisory program sees the headway made by other programs trying to navigate the maze.
Fiction book (2002) -
It modified the supervisory program's error-detecting mechanisms to eliminate all evidence of its own actions.
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First, the runners are sterile; they can't reproduce without the supervisory program.
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The supervisory program efficiently manages the tasks of multiple applications running simultaneously.
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A reliable supervisory program helps coordinate system resources to ensure all processes run smoothly.
Synonyms
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4.8
A program that controls other programs and manages computer resources
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4.1
A program that watches and checks how a computer system works
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4.6
A computer tool that watches a system, reports problems, and can restart services
Programs that stay in a computer's memory and control other programs
A program that controls other programs on a computer
How Controlling
- Specialized
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8.2
- Specialized
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3.4
- Specialized
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5.6
- Specialized
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a program that manages and controls other programs' is directly and transparently built from 'supervisory' (pertaining to overseeing) + 'program' (a set of coded instructions). This compositional interpretation follows normal modifier+noun logic and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name supervisory program may come from the picture of a person standing above a team and giving orders: supervisory means watching and guiding, and program is a set of instructions. So a supervisory program is like a manager in a computer that 'manages and controls' other programs.