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compiler

[ kuhm-pahy-ler ]

noun

  1. a person who compiles, or gathers things together.
  2. Also called com·pil·ing rou·tine [k, uh, m-, pahy, -ling roo-teen]. Computers. a computer program that translates a program written in a high-level language into another language, usually machine language. Compare interpreter ( def 3a ).


compiler

/ kəmˈpaɪlə /

noun

  1. a person who collects or compiles something
  2. 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 computer Compare assembler
“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


compiler

/ kəm-pīlər /

  1. 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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of compiler1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English compilour, from Anglo-French; Old French compileor, from Late Latin compīlātor; equivalent to compile + -er 2
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Example Sentences

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.

For what it’s worth, the compiler of this post disagrees with Neil and thinks the game will go over the total.

Today, Cunard is best known as the compiler and publisher of Negro: An Anthology (1934).

Jacobus, né Jacopo, was a 13th-century Genoan archbishop and compiler of what we might call Lies of the Saints.

The obsessive compiler would then devote nearly three decades to his monumental American dictionary.

The compiler remarks that "this trait does great honor to Theodoric's manner of thinking with respect to religion."

He was probably the author or compiler of the sacred books; and is said to have been the first who taught disciples.

The compiler of this work has rendered good service to all possessed of Christian sympathies.

The Mr. Hackluyt here mentioned is the industrious compiler of the well-known collection of early voyages.

Yet the alleged late compiler of the Odyssey, in the seventh century, never wanders thus from the Homeric standard in taste.

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