Definition of Machine language

1. Noun. A programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers.


2. Noun. A set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation.
Exact synonyms: Machine Code
Generic synonyms: Code, Computer Code

Definition of Machine language

1. Noun. (programming) The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from a high-level language by an assembler, compiler or interpreter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Machine Language

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machine-readable dictionaries
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machine-readable text
machine-translation
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machine gun
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machine instruction
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machine screw
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Literary usage of Machine language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"The instructions module provides the assembler with constructors for each kind of machine language instruction. It also provides the simulator with a ..."

2. SAS(R) 9.1.3 Language Reference:: Dictionary, Fifth Edition, Volumes 1-4 by SAS Institute (2006)
"ALL specifies that the compiler is to optimize the machine language code by ... The compiler subsystem generates machine language code for the computer on ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"But now the results of this intellectual analysis are recorded in a unified machine-language information store, and essentially all subsequent manipulation, ..."

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