assembler
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.
Noun
- 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.
- The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities. - 1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35:
- Assembly language.
- I wrote that program in assembler.
- One who assembles items.
- Our father worked as an assembler in a radio factory that would go out of business in the early 1960s, […] - 2014, Howard Waldrop, Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader:
- A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
- Assembler (nanotechnology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Medieval Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sem-h₂-lo- Proto-Italic *semalis Medieval Latin similis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Medieval Latin -ō Medieval Latin simulō Medieval Latin assimulōder. Old French assemblerbor. Middle English assemblen English assemble Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English assembler From assemble + -er.
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absolute assembler assembler language cross assembler disassembler macroassembler microassembler molecular assembler