GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Assembler (), n. One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.
   
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   2. (Computers) a computer program that takes as input a set of instructions written in assembly language, and produces a corresponding executable computer program in machine language.
   
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   3. (Computers) same as assembly language. [informal]
   
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   assembly language n.
   1. (Computers) an artificial computer language with mnemonic codes representing the basic machine-language instructions of a computer, which can be interpreted by an assembler to produce a computer program in machine language.  Also informally referred to as assembler. Writing a program in assembly language is very much simpler than writing the machine instructions in binary code, and the use of such a language greatly increases the efficiency of the process of writing computer programs.  See also programming language, FORTRAN, BASIC.
   
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