COMPILING PROGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compiling program mean? 

• COMPILING PROGRAM (noun)
  The noun COMPILING PROGRAM has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program

  Familiarity information: COMPILING PROGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPILING PROGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

compiler; compiling program

Hypernyms ("compiling program" is a kind of...):

computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)

Meronyms (parts of "compiling program"):

parser (a computer program that divides code up into functional components)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compiling program"):

C compiler (a compiler for programs written in C)

Fortran compiler (a compiler for programs written in FORTRAN)

LISP compiler (a compiler for programs written in LISP)

Pascal compiler (a compiler for programs written in Pascal)