What is standalone program

Answer 1

A program that runs without the need of specific 3rd-party threads, libraries, languages, plug-ins…… something that is self-dependent…

Answer 2

a program that can be executed without having to install an interpreter or an engine.
eg
- a compiled application (eg a .exe on windows) is stand alone
- scripts such as python needs the python interpreter so are not standalone
- java need the java engine so not stand alone.