Definitions for machine language

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

machine′ lan`guage(n.)

  1. a usu. numerical coding system specific to the hardware of a given computer model, into which any high-level or assembly program must be translated before being run.

    Category: Computers

Princeton's WordNet

  1. computer language, computer-oriented language, machine language, machine-oriented language(noun)

    a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers

  2. machine code, machine language(noun)

    a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation

Wiktionary

  1. machine language(Noun)

    The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from a high-level language by an assembler, compiler or interpreter.


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