existing software

collocation in English

meaningsofexistingandsoftware

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existing
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪɡˈzɪs.tɪŋ/us
/ɪɡˈzɪs.tɪŋ/
used to refer to something that ...
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software
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsɒft.weər/us
/ˈsɑːft.wer/
the instructions that control what a computer does; ...
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(Definition ofexistingandsoftwarefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, the implementation may appear difficult whenexistingsoftwarecomponents like mesh generators, multigrid solvers, etc., cannot be directly used.
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The major aim of refactoring is to improve readability, maintainability, and extensibility of theexistingsoftware.
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To reapplyexistingsoftware, hardware, knowledge and experience, only a minimum of software and hardware restrictions could be given to the partners.
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This may be responsible for the absence of uptake of this type of logical reasoning formalism withinexistingsoftwareapplications.
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The integration framework uses only standard software and hardware, which allows us to take advantage of usefulexistingsoftwarepackages and products.
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It analyzes, abstracts, and integratesexistingsoftware-development methodologies and knowledge-acquisition techniques into proper ontologies.
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Our approach relies on a distributed component model that enables flexible reuse and extension ofexistingsoftwaremodules and is able to deal with a heterogeneous software environment.
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We decided to useexistingsoftwareas far as possible for the front end (lexical, syntax and type analysis) and back end (code generation) of our compiler.
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It coordinatesexistingsoftwareand tracks the processes and helps to ensure that activities are performed by the right application undertaken by the right actors that have the right skills.
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Most affected systems can be upgraded, some by reworkingexistingsoftwareor electronic components and others by replacing inadequate software or components.
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This will require both new software and changes toexistingsoftware.
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A piece of software is nothing more than a collection of mathematical formulae; the creation of new software can use hundreds of pieces ofexistingsoftware.
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Coding conventions simplify writing new software whose job is to processexistingsoftware.
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However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded theirexistingsoftware.
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This created enormous migration problems forexistingsoftware.
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Existingsoftwareonly provides exact probabilities for sample sizes less than about 30 participants.
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Some argued that they should not even do it, as it would be simply reusingexistingsoftwareand selling it to the consumers.
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So "mutation testing" is defined as using mutation analysis to design new software tests or to evaluateexistingsoftwaretests.
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Another promising application of knowledge discovery is in the area of software modernization, weakness discovery and compliance which involves understandingexistingsoftwareartifacts.
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