The act of directing, and/or controlling resources by virtue of explicit legal, agency, or delegated authority. 

An instruction for the computer. Many commands put together make up algorithms and computer programs.

c. 1300, from Old French comander "to order, enjoin, entrust" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare "to recommend, entrust to" (see commend), altered by infl [..]

c. 1400, "order, command," from Old French comand (14c.), from comander (see command (v.)). Meaning "control, authority" is from mid-15c.

an order or direction.

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something be in command of; "The general commanded a huge army" a military unit or region under the control of a single office [..]

A request, typed from a terminal or embedded in a file, to perform an operation or to execute a particular program.

A sentence that gives an order, instruction, direction or seeks an active response. Written commands may end with a full stop or exclamation mark.

to tell someone he must do something

The capabilities required by commanders to exercise command and control of their forces. [JCS Pub 18, Operations Security, Dec. 1982.]

Integrated systems of doctrine, procedures, organizational structures, personnel, equipment, facilities, and communications designed to support a commander's exercise of command and control, through all phases of the operational continuum. [JP1] 2. Integrated systems of doctrine, procedures, organizational structures, personnel, equipment, fac [..]

The facilities, computer equipment, communications equipment, display devices, and intelligence systems necessary to support military operations.

An order for an action to take place. 2. In data transmission, an instruction sent by the primary station instructing a secondary station to perform some specific function. 3. In signaling systems, a control signal. 4. In computer programming, that part of a computer instruction word that specifies the operation to be performed. 5. Loosely, a mathe [..]

A sentence that gives direction or seeks an active response, for example 'Leave now!', 'Go!' Commands always end with an exclamation mark.

Command, control, communications, and intelligence systems are the integrated combinations of military command information processing, communications network, and intelligence gathering subsystems (in [..]

An instruction to a computer or device to perform a specific task. Commands come in different forms. They can be: special words (keywords) that a program understands. function keys choices in a menu b [..]

To dream of being commanded, denotes that you will be humbled in some way by your associates for scorn shown your superiors. To dream of giving a command, you will have some honor conferred upon you. If this is done in a tyrannical or boastful way disappointments will follow.   

Integrated systems of doctrine, procedures, organizational structures, personnel, equipment, facilities, and communications designed to support a commander's exercise of command and control, thro [..]

design patterns

(n) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something(n) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer(n) the power or authority to command(n) availability for use(n) a posit [..]

Something you tell the computer or a program to do.

Command, in computing, refers to an instruction to a computer or device to perform a specific task. Every program that interacts with people responds to a specific set of commands. The set of commands [..]

The act of directing and/or controlling resources by virtue of explicit legal, agency, or delegated authority. May also refer to the Incident Commander. Command Post:

(kommando): a communicative function, typically realized by a sentence in the imperative. A command is used when a speaker wants the hearer to do something. Examples: Sit down. Open your books. Listen [..]

A command (.CMD) is a specific action assigned to a program to perform a specific task. It commonly refers to a specific word or phrase that tells the computer what to do through a command line interf [..]

In shell programming, the syntactic combination of a program name and its arguments. More loosely, anything you type to a shell (a command interpreter) that starts it doing something. Even more loosely, a Perl statement, which might start with a label and typically ends with a semicolon.

A command is an instruction you can give to Karel. Command

In shell

A series of space-separated text items handed to the operating system. The first of these items is the name of some program (which may be internal to the operating system) you want to run. The rest of the items are called parameters which are processed by the program and control exactly what that program does.

Commands are used on the eNet protocol layer to transport your data or establish / shutdown connections. You won't write these, but we will explain them for your background knowledge.

A smaller type of Salvation Army 'territory' (see Territory) directed by a designated 'Officer Commanding'.