Etymology

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Today it means: A table of commands to be executed periodically. Full definition →

Ancient Greek χρόνος
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχρόνος“time”
  2. English todaycrontab

Shortening of cron table, where cron is the name of the system program that handles these tasks, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

Words from the same roots

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