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

  • noun A line on a computer terminal at which commands are typed.
  • noun A string of characters that constitute such a command.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article.
  • noun computing The text prompt presented to the user in a command line interface.
  • noun A line of text that is entered at such a prompt.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun commands that a user types in order to run an application

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