control structure

A structure used to direct the flow of execution of a program.

Noun

  1. A structure used to direct the flow of execution of a program.
    • In C++ you can and often will nest control structures: place one conditional within another; put a loop within another loop; have a conditional within a loop; and so forth. - 2005, Larry Ullman, Andreas Signer, C++...

    Coordinate Terms: data structure

Forms

control structures

Hyponyms

branch loop switch