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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of the first high-level programming languages, designed to solve problems that can be expressed algebraically and used mainly in mathematics, science, and engineering.

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  • proper noun A high-level programming language developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering and numerical computation.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[for(mula) + tran(slation).]

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The name is a portmanteau of Formula Translator/Translation

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