Definition of Machine code

1. Noun. A set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation.

Exact synonyms: Machine Language
Generic synonyms: Code, Computer Code

Definition of Machine code

1. Noun. (computer science) System of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Machine Code

machine-displayable text
machine-driven
machine-gun
machine-gunner
machine-gunners
machine-made
machine-oriented language
machine-readable
machine-readable dictionaries
machine-readable dictionary
machine-readable text
machine-translation
machine-wash
machine-washable
machine bolt
machine code (current term)
machine gun
machine gunner
machine guns
machine independent
machine instruction
machine instructions
machine language
machine languages
machine learning
machine of government
machine operation
machine pistol
machine pistols
machine politician

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 ..."

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