<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A customary or regular course of procedure.</li><li>Commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity:<ul><li>The routine of an office.</li></ul></li><li>Regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.</li><li>An unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response:<ul><li>Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!</li></ul></li><li>Computers: a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.</li><li>A series of operations performed by the computer.</li><li>An individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer:<ul><li>A comic routine; a dance routine.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine:<ul><li>Routine duties.</li></ul></li><li>Dull or uninteresting; commonplace.</li></ul>