flow of control

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

control flow
flow of control

   <programming> (Or "flow of control") The sequence of execution
   of instructions in a program.  This is determined at run time
   by the input data and by the {control structures} (e.g. "if"
   statements) used in the program.

   Not to be confused with "{flow control}".

   (1997-09-14)