From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishalgorithmal‧go‧rith‧m /ˈælɡərɪðəm/ noun [countable]technical a set of instructions that are followed in a fixed order and used for solving a mathematical problem, making a computer program etcExamples from the Corpusalgorithm• To see how this arises in detail suppose we have such an algorithm that is sometimes effective.• When files are randomly organized using an algorithm, the device must first be initialized to remove all prior data.• With knowledge of the particular error, it is possible to implement some correctionalgorithms.• Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detectedmisspelled word.• Weights, summing and transferfunctions, and learning algorithms all rely heavily on mathematics.• An unsupervised learning algorithm might emphasizecooperation among clusters of processing elements.• That is no algorithm at all.• It might seem that a suitablealgorithm could be found which would not generatesynonyms.Originalgorithm(1600-1700)algorism"algorithm"((13-19 centuries)), from Medieval Latinalgorismus, from Arabical-khuwarizmi, from al-Khuwarizmi 9th-century Persian mathematician; influenced by Greekarithmos"number"