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/
  • (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

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/
  • (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

Declension

Further reading

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 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative assembler assemblern assemblers assemblersarna
Genitive assemblers assemblerns assemblerss assemblersarnas

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