<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or process of executing.</li><li>the state or fact of being executed.</li><li>the infliction of capital punishment or, formerly, of any legal punishment.</li><li>the process of performing a judgment or sentence of a court: The judge stayed execution of the sentence pending appeal.</li><li>a mode or style of performance; technical skill, as in music: The pianist's execution of the sonata was consummate.</li><li>effective, usually destructive action, or the result attained by it (usually preceded by do): The grenades did rapid execution.</li><li>Law: a judicial writ directing the enforcement of a judgment.</li><li>Computers: the act of running, or the results of having run, a program or routine, or the performance of an instruction.</li></ul>