Etymology

From Ancient GreekCategory:English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#PRAGMACategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PRAGMA πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”). In the technical senses perhaps a back-formation from pragmaticCategory:English back-formations#PRAGMA or a clipping of pragmatCategory:English clippings#PRAGMA used earlier in ALGOL.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹæɡmə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PRAGMACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PRAGMA

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PRAGMA

Noun

pragma (plural pragmas or pragmata)Category:English lemmas#PRAGMACategory:English nouns#PRAGMACategory:English countable nouns#PRAGMACategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#PRAGMACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PRAGMACategory:Pages with entries#PRAGMACategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRAGMA

1. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#PRAGMA) A compiler directive; data embedded in source code by programmers to indicate some intention to a compiler.

   Synonym: (in ALGOL) pragmat

   This pragma stops the compiler from generating those warnings we don't care about.Category:English terms with usage examples#PRAGMA

   • 2012, Robert Oshana, DSP for Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 218:

     […] users may also want to disable functionality such as function inlining via either a compiler command line option or compiler pragma, depending on the build tools system and functionality supported.

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2. (InternetCategory:en:Internet#PRAGMA) In early versions of HTTP, a general header that specifies some implementation-specific directive, to any recipient, and may specify that the HTTP response should not be cached.
   • 1996 May, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.0”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 1945:

     It is not possible to specify a pragma for a specific recipient; however, any pragma directive not relevant to a recipient should be ignored by that recipient.

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3. (uncommonCategory:English terms with uncommon senses#PRAGMA) A practical thing or action, as opposed to theory or belief (dogma).
   • 1939, Jacques Barzun, Of Human Freedom, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 129:

     At any given minute, we must choose between habitual action and thoughtful action, between Dogma and Pragma.

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   • 1961 April, R. A. Lafferty, “All the People”, in Galaxy Science Fiction‎:

     "If it is practical, a pragma, it is a thing and not a theory."

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   • 2023 May 20, Daniel Hannan, “The Conservative coalition is falling apart. Too many Tories have given up on freedom”, in The Telegraph‎, →ISSN:

     Other speakers railed against “neo-liberal dogma”; but a dogma is a belief that you hold regardless of evidence. No one comes to economic liberalism through dogma. In theory, a planned economy might work better than one left to arrange itself; in practice, it never does. Classical liberalism, far from being a dogma, is a pragma.

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Anagrams

• grampa

Noun

pragma m (plural pragmas)Category:Spanish lemmas#PRAGMACategory:Spanish nouns#PRAGMACategory:Spanish countable nouns#PRAGMACategory:Spanish nouns with irregular gender#PRAGMACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PRAGMACategory:Spanish masculine nouns#PRAGMACategory:Pages with entries#PRAGMACategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRAGMA

1. pragma