compiler

Definitions


[kəmˈpʌɪlə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who produces a list or book by assembling information or written material collected from other sources
(e.g: this passage was revised in different ways by later compilers)

- a program that converts instructions into a machine-code or lower-level form so that they can be read and executed by a computer
(e.g: conversion would require more than just running it through a different compiler)


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definition by Oxford Dictionaries