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assembler

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See also: Assembler

English

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Etymology

From assemble + -er. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Some history on first use of word and each major sense would be interesting.”)

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Noun

assembler (countable and uncountable, plural assemblers)

  1. (programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
    • 1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35:
      The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
  2. (computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.
    I wrote that program in assembler.
  3. (countable) One who assembles items.
    • 2014, Howard Waldrop, Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader:
      Our father worked as an assembler in a radio factory that would go out of business in the early 1960s, []
  4. (nanotechnology, countable) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.

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Noun

assembler m inan

  1. (programming) assembler (a tool that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code)
  2. (programming) assembler, assembly (a programming language whose mnemonic instructions directly correspond to machine instructions for a particular processor)

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French asembler, from Latin assimulāre. See also assimiler, a borrowed doublet.

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assembler

  1. to assemble

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Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English assembler.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈsɛm.blɛr/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmblɛr
  • Syllabification: a‧ssem‧bler

Noun

assembler m inan

  1. (computer languages, countable or uncountable) alternative spelling of asembler

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Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English assembler.

Noun

assembler c

  1. (computing) assembly language
    Synonym: assemblerspråk
  2. (computing) an assembler (program that converts assembly language into machine code)
    Synonym: assemblator

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