assembler

assembler

See also: Assembler

English

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.”)

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /əˈsɛmb(ə)lɚ/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Audio (US):(file)

    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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    Czech

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈasɛmblɛr]

    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)

    Declension

    French

    Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /a.sɑ̃.ble/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Audio (France (Somain)):(file)

    Verb

    assembler

    1. to assemble

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    Polish

    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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    Further reading

    • assembler”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[1] (in Polish)

    Swedish

    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

    Declension

    Declension of assembler
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite assembler assemblers
    definite assemblern assemblerns
    plural indefinite assemblers assemblerss
    definite assemblersarna assemblersarnas

    References

    • assembler”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)