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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A set of instructions for a specific central processing unit, designed to be usable by a computer without being translated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers) a set of instructions{3} in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun programming The
set ofinstructions that a particularcomputer is designed toexecute ; generated from ahigh-level language by anassembler ,compiler orinterpreter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
- noun a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
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