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Driver
  • n. The main loop of an event-processing program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution.
  • [techspeak] In `device driver', code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or tape unit.
  • In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common format to something a real device can actually understand.