machine language
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- noun
- /məˈʃin ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
- Specialized
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lenguaje máquina
- They are generally either translated into machine language by a compiler or an assembler before being run, or translated directly at run time by an interpreter.
And so but when they switch from machine language to Fortran, then they can't remember their earlier thoughts.
- And so but when they switch from machine language to Fortran, then they can't remember their earlier thoughts.
- And, you know, if we want to be really, you know, sticklers and, well, they all reduced down to machine language, you know, just a bunch of logic circuits.
Examples
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The 1620s machine language was Base-10 (not octal or hexadecimal).
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A Forth interpreter system can be written in 1 KB of machine language.
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OK, so every machine language instruction carries a verb.
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"She was programming in machine language," recalls her mother.
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Machine languages are nearly all entirely populated with verbs.
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And so but when they switch from machine language to Fortran, then they can't remember their earlier thoughts.
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And, you know, if we want to be really, you know, sticklers and, well, they all reduced down to machine language, you know, just a bunch of logic circuits.
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In the translation to machine language, Java, with its noun-centric view, requires some serious gyrations to become the verb-oriented stream that the machine executes.
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Many early computers required programmers to write their code in machine language to ensure compatibility with the hardware.
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To optimize performance, the software developer decided to rewrite the program directly in machine language.
Synonyms
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A set of instructions in numbers that a computer's processor can run directly
Antonyms
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A type of computer language that is easy for people to read and write
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a language used by machines/computers' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'machine' (a device) and 'language' (a system of communication). While the technical detail that it refers to binary/executable instructions is specialist, a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer it denotes the language used by machines, so the compound is compositionally clear.
Etymology
Machine language comes from the idea of a machine that has its own language of very simple signals—patterns of 1s and 0s that tell the machine exactly what to do. Because these patterns are the actual 'instructions' a computer can 'understand' and run without translation, the term means the basic code a computer uses directly.