Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

machine language

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English

Syllables: ma-chine lan-guage
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level language by a compiler or interpreter.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Machine language is certainly the most efficient language on the Apple, albeit the least pleasant in which to code. The Monitor has special facilities for those of you who are determined to use machine language to simplify creating, writing, and debugging machine language programs."
"Though machine language is efficient for computers, it is inefficient for programmers."

Usage

Inflected Forms

machine languages (plural)

Synonyms

machine code computer language computer-oriented language machine-oriented language

Questions

What does machine language mean?: The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level language by a compiler or interpreter.

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