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Execute

To complete; to make; to sign; to perform; to do; to carry out according to its terms; to fulfill the command or purpose of. To perform all necessary formalities, as to make and sign a contract, or sign and deliver a note.

Execute is the opposite of executory, incomplete or yet to be performed.

execute

v. 1) to finish, complete, or perform as required, as in fulfilling one's obligations under a contract or a court order. 2) to sign and otherwise complete a document, such as acknowledging the signature if required to make the document valid. 3) to seize property under court order. 4) to put to death pursuant to a sentence rendered by a court. (See: contract, capital punishment, executed, execution)

TO EXECUTE. To make, to perform, to do, to follow out. This term is frequently used in the law; as, to execute a deed is to make a deed.
2. It also signifies to perform, as to execute a contract; hence some contracts are called executed contracts, and others are called executory contracts.
3. To execute also means to put to death by virtue of a lawful sentence; as, the sheriff executed the convict.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Kierski, M.Okoniewski and P.Gawrysiak, "Automatic Classification of Executable Code for Computer Virus Detection", in Conference: Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Proceedings of the International IIS: IIPWM'03, Zakopane, Poland, 2003, pp.

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Once the code is written, the HDL designer can use HDL Verifier to simulate the HDL design in the Simulink environment using ModelSim, and compare the output of the HDL design to the output of the executable specification.

Optimized approach of Sobel operator of image edge detection using model-based design

Code-reuse attacks craft certain assumptions concerning the address format of application's executable code.

Reduction of code reuse attacks using code randomization and recursive traversal algorithm

(ii) Model execution: execute the executable model with the candidate input.

A model independent S/W framework for search-based software testing

In the paper, the components which need dynamical measurement are running services, processes, or executable subjects, denoted by S, Memory Pages denoted by P, and Storage Block denoted by B.

Research on dynamic integrity measurement model based on memory paging mechanism

An executable model is a fairly new paradigm, allowing system architects to create, validate, simulate and even implement software.

Simplified visual modelling approach for executable software generation/Supaprastintas vizualaus modeliavimo budas vykdomosioms programoms kurti

On his work to develop an algorithm for embedding hidden data in an executable file, Tiwari worked with Gadadhar Sahoo, a professor in the information technology department at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, near Ranchi, India.

Buried Intel

Ma said the Ministry of Economic Affairs should come up with executable energy policy by consulting international energy specialists and canvassing people for their opinions.

President Ma draws up guidelines for Taiwan's energy policy

Faronics, San Ramon, Calif., has announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Faronics Anti- Executable a winner of the 2011 Global Product Excellence Awards in the Anti-Malware category.

FARONICS ANTI-EXECUTABLE WINS ANTI-MALWARE AWARD

The policy decisions that result from the current MiFID review must be based on data that accurately represents 'executable' liquidity, suggests an author of TABB Group's latest study of the UK equity market.

Trade data gives "inaccurate view of market" - TABB

The three-year debt facility carries a 7.75% coupon and a put option executable in two years, the source added.