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Definition of Machine code
1. Noun. A set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation.
Definition of Machine code
1. Noun. (computer science) System of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machine Code
Literary usage of Machine code
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Computer Models for Water-Resources Planning and Management: National Study by Ralph A. Wurbs (1997)
"The central processing unit (CPU) of a computer manipulates data bits according
to a simplified set of sequences called machine code. ..."
2. Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation by Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft (1993)
"D Exercise 4-3 At the end of Section 4.2.2 it is mentioned that mix could generate
residual programs in a low-level language, eg machine code. 1. ..."
3. SAS 9.1.3 Language Reference: Concepts by SAS Institute (2005)
"... the stored program, it resolves the intermediate code produced by the compiler
and generates the executable machine code for that operating environment. ..."
4. Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S. Economy: Report of a Symposium by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson, Charles W. Wessner (2006)
"It does not take that many lines of Turing machine code to describe a hardware
design, even one involving a billion transistors, because for the most part ..."