debug
verb (used with object)
to detect and remove defects or errors from.
debugger
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a word derived from
debug.
Example Sentences
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He was a good debugger; the key to finding bugs was getting to the bottom of things.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
For those inclined to credit Babbage, rather than Lovelace, with the computer program in Section G, Lovelace is still indisputably the world’s first debugger.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 7, 2011
“If you look at the code in a debugger you see patterns that jump out at you,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2010
With the use of the debugger, which took up one third of the 4,096 words of the TX-O's memory, hackers were free to create a new, more daring style of programming.
From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Steven Levy
The other program that Dennis worked on with Stockman was something even newer—a debugger.
From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Steven Levy
