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assembly language

American  

noun

Computers.

  1. a programming language most of whose expressions are symbolic equivalents of the machine-language instructions of a particular computer.

assembly language British  

noun

  1. computing a low-level programming language that allows a programmer complete control of the machine code to be generated

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Etymology

Origin of assembly language

First recorded in 1960–65

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