The Collaborative International Dictionary
assembly language \assembly language\ n. 1. (Computers) an artificial computer language with mnemonic codes representing the basic machine-language instructions of a computer, which can be interpreted by an assembler to produce a computer program in machine language. Also informally referred to as assembler.
Note: Writing a program in assembly language is very much simpler than writing the machine instructions in binary code, and the use of such a language greatly increases the efficiency of the process of writing computer programs. See also programming language, FORTRAN, BASIC.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context programming English) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools. 2 (context programming informal English) assembly language. 3 One who assembles items. 4 (context nanotechnology English) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
WordNet
n. a program to convert assembly language into machine language [syn: assembly program]
Wikipedia
Assembler (meaning one that assembles) may refer to:
- Assembler (computing), a computer program which translates assembly language to an object file or machine language format
- the assembler (bioinformatics), a program to perform genome assembly
- the assembler (nanotechnology), a conjectured construction machine that would manipulate and build with individual atoms or molecules
- the stage name of avant-garde electronic musician Nobukazu Takemura
- the Assemblers, an alien race in the Star Wars universe
Usage examples of "assembler".
It was almost like when the Durancy assemblers had activated her, but this was not alien, foreign, like him.
The assembler is dead, thought Boba Fett with distaste, long live the assembler.
Thariinye adjusted the assembler to produce other silicates such as tourmaline and iolite, orthoclase and microcline.
Because assemblers were vastly more complicated than the molecules they made, attempts to design and build them had been difficult from the outset.
But now Ricky was telling me, quite casually, that Xymos could build molecular assemblers that were now turning out molecules for the company.
It turned out that the molecular assemblers were heavy, and tended to sink to the bottom.
So the assemblers were making very little contact with the molecules they were meant to assemble.
That brought the assemblers into better contact with the component molecules, and immediately our yields jumped five orders of magnitude.
We must have vented five or six hundred kilos of contaminants—bacteria, molecules, assemblers.
Pretty soon you have assemblers, and the assemblers begin to do the final work and turn out new microagents.
It flowed to the center, where the assemblers churned out the final molecules.
The gamma assemblers are designed to cut microfragments of silicon, but faced with a pliable substance like skin, they only pinch it.
For some reason the gamma assemblers cut memory chips and leave central processors alone.
Thousands of seconds passed, an aeon to the productive assemblers: skeletons appeared, first as lacy outlines and then as baroque coral outcroppings afloat in the central placentory bubbles.
Even more frightening is the fact that their last backups are locked up in the assembler firewall that isolates YFH-Polity from the outside world—while I’m not certain it’s infected with Curious Yellow, I have my suspicions.