Other Definitions
command (dict)

Command

• An order.
• In organizations, a command is an office or position of authority.
• In telecommunication, the term command has the following meanings:
• An order for an action to take place.
• In data transmission, an instruction sent by the primary station instructing a secondary station to perform some specific function.
• In signaling systems, a control signal.
• In computer programming, that part of a computer instruction word that specifies the operation to be performed. See command (computing) for detail.
• Loosely, a mathematical or logic operator.
• In computer programming, command pattern is a design pattern.

References

• Federal Standard 1037C
• MIL-STD-188

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