care maintenance upkeep | activity involved in maintaining something in good working order, he wrote the manual on car care |
scheduled maintenance | maintenance at a regularly scheduled time |
maintenance criminal maintenance | the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community, unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit |
education instruction teaching pedagogy didactics educational activity | the activities of educating or instructing, activities that impart knowledge or skill, he received no formal education, our instruction was carefully programmed, good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded |
course course of study course of instruction class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings, he took a course in basket weaving, flirting is not unknown in college classes |
teaching instruction pedagogy | the profession of a teacher, he prepared for teaching while still in college, pedagogy is recognized as an important profession |
catechetical instruction | teaching religious principles by questions and answers |
sustenance sustentation sustainment maintenance upkeep | the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence, they were in want of sustenance, fishing was their main sustainment |
complex instruction set computing complex instruction set computer CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
reduced instruction set computing reduced instruction set computer RISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform |
instruction book | a book of directions for using or operating some piece of equipment |
instruction manual instructions book of instructions operating instructions | a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it |
instruction command statement program line | (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program |
macro macro instruction | a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language |
system call supervisor call instruction | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor |
direction instruction | a message describing how something is to be done, he gave directions faster than she could follow them |
service staff maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
repairman maintenance man service man | a skilled worker whose job is to repair things |
alimony maintenance | court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated |
health maintenance organization HMO | group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians |
maintenance | means of maintenance of a family or group |
execution instruction execution | (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer |
MIPS million instructions per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system), MIPS is ,, instructions per second |