Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR ălʹgə-rĭ-thəm, IPA: /ˈælɡəɹɪðəm/, /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
- (GA) enPR ălʹgə-rĭ
' thəm, IPA: /ˈælɡəˌɹɪðəm/, /ˈælɡəˌɹɪðm̩/
algorithm
- (countable) A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.
- 1990, Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms: page 1. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999 (23rd printing)
- Informally, an algorithm is any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values, as output. An algorithm is thus a sequence of computational steps that transform the input into the output.
- 1990, Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms: page 1. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999 (23rd printing)
- (uncountable, obsolete) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.
- French: algorithme
- German: Algorithmus, Rechenverfahren
- Italian: algoritmo
- Portuguese: algoritmo
- Russian: алгори́тм
- Spanish: algoritmo
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