compiler

[ kuhm-pahy-ler ]

/ kəmˈpaɪ lər /

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noun

a person who compiles.

Also called compiling routine .Computers. a computer program that translates a program written in a high-level language into another language, usually machine language.Compare interpreter (def. 3a).

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Origin of compiler

1300–50; Middle English compilour<Anglo-French; Old French compileor<Late Latin compīlātōr-.See compile, -er²

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pre·com·pil·er, noun

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Compiègne, compilation, compilation film, compile, compiled language, compiler, complacency, complacent, complacently, complain, complainant

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How to use compiler in a sentence

With the arrival in the early 1950s of program compilers—a technology and term invented by a woman—the workers became “coders,” a word reflecting a persistent misunderstanding of programming as something mechanistic, practically stenographic.
Why can’t tech fix its gender problem?|Margaret O’Mara|August 11, 2022|MIT Technology Review
For what it’s worth, the compiler of this post disagrees with Neil and thinks the game will go over the total.
A compendium of Super Bowl picks including one from a goat. (Not the GOAT, an actual goat.)|Matt Bonesteel|February 5, 2021|Washington Post
Today, Cunard is best known as the compiler and publisher of Negro: An Anthology (1934).
What Can You Learn About Writers From Their Personal Libraries?|Richard Oram|September 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Jacobus, né Jacopo, was a 13th-century Genoan archbishop and compiler of what we might call Lies of the Saints.
Twelve Unusual Christmas Reads|Stefan Beck|December 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST

The obsessive compiler would then devote nearly three decades to his monumental American dictionary.
Publishing’s Founding Father|Joshua Kendall|July 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The compiler remarks that "this trait does great honor to Theodoric's manner of thinking with respect to religion."
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
He was probably the author or compiler of the sacred books; and is said to have been the first who taught disciples.
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram
The compiler of this work has rendered good service to all possessed of Christian sympathies.
Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People|Eliza Lee Follen
The Mr. Hackluyt here mentioned is the industrious compiler of the well-known collection of early voyages.
Witch, Warlock, and Magician|William Henry Davenport Adams
Yet the alleged late compiler of the Odyssey, in the seventh century, never wanders thus from the Homeric standard in taste.
Homer and His Age|Andrew Lang

British Dictionary definitions for compiler

compiler

/ (kəmˈpaɪlə) /

noun

a person who collects or compiles something

a computer program by which a high-level programming language, such as COBOL or FORTRAN, is converted into machine language that can be acted upon by a computerCompare assembler

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Scientific definitions for compiler

compiler

[ kəm-pī′lər ]

A computer program associated with certain programming languages that converts the instructions written in those languages into machine code that can later be executed directly by a computer. See more at programming language.

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