procedure division

plural procedure divisions

1. computingThe part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute

   The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.

   1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information

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   The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.

   1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

   In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.

   2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems