Assembler

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assembler \As*sem"bler\, n.
     One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a
     number assembled.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.0.48 [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
       n : 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)