compiler
A program that translates a high-level language program, source code, into a computer’s machine code or some other low-level language. Generally each high-level language instruction generates several machine-code instructions. It produces an independent program which can be run.
Related terms
compilation error
compile
compile time
interpreter
source code
symbol table
high-level language
machine code
run
instruction
Term sub categories
Programming
assemblers, compilers and interpreters
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