SOURCE PROGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does source program mean? 

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

1. a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOURCE PROGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

Antonym:

object program (a fully compiled or assembled program ready to be loaded into the computer)