Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun algorithm

1 sense of algorithm

Sense 1
algorithm, algorithmic rule, algorithmic program -- (a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem)
       => rule, formula -- ((mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials")