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Compile
  • To translate a computer program expressed in a high-level language into a program expressed in an intermediate language, assembly language, or a machine language. (FP) (ISO)
  • To prepare a machine language program from a computer program written in another programming language by making use of the overall logic structure of the program, or by generating more than one computer instruction for each symbolic statement, or both, as well as performing the function of an assembler. (FP)
  • See also Ada(r), assembly language, computer, computer language, computer-oriented language, high-level language, machine language, programmer.