Statement

A command or instruction to be executed in an imperative program.

Related concepts:  Control FlowConditionalLoop

Closest Wikipedia entry:  Statement (computer science) — In computer programming, a statement is a syntactic unit of an imperative programming language that expresses some action to be carried out. A program written in such a language is formed by a sequence of one or more statements. A statement may have internal components (e.g. expressions).

Misconceptions about Statement

4 documented Misconceptions

MandatoryAssignment — JavaScript

An expression must be assigned to have a valid statement

MapToBooleanWithIf — Java

To map a boolean expression to a boolean, an if statement is necessary

MapToBooleanWithIf — Python

To map a boolean expression to a bool, an if statement is necessary

ReturnNoOutEdge — Java

In a control-flow graph, a return statement has no outgoing edge