routine

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

noun

1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
   Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.
   stand-up comedy routine
4. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

adj

1. According to established procedure.
2. Regular; habitual.
   Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine. 1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, page 108
   Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful. 2013-07-20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
   Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel. November 3, 2011, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport