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assembler

American  
[uh-sem-bler] / əˈsɛm blər /

noun

  1. a person or thing that assembles.

  2. Computers.

    1. Also called assembly routine.  a language processor that translates symbolic assembly language into equivalent machine language.

    2. assembly language.


assembler British  
/ əˈsɛmblə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that assembles See compiler

  2. a type of computer program that converts a program written in assembly language into machine code Compare compiler

  3. another name for assembly language

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of assembler

First recorded in 1625–35; assemble + -er 1

Example Sentences

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The RefAligner and Assembler programs in IrysSolve tools were used to assemble these BioNano molecules with initial assembly P value of 1 × 10−10 and extension/refinement P value of 1 × 10−11.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

To assemble the missed regions, we tried to assemble the whole genome using the corrected PacBio reads with Celera Assembler.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

Occupation: Assembler at Wabash National, a trailer manufacturing company.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2018

I'm 27 and I work as an Assembler at Omax Corporation in Kent, WA.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2018

Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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