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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Assembler \As*sem"bler\, noun One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.
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. [PJC]
3. (Computers) same as {assembly language}. [informal] [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
assembly language \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}.
Note: 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}. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
assembler
noun: a program to convert assembly language into machine language [syn: {assembly program}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
assembler A program which converts {assembly language} into {machine code}. (1996-03-25)
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