The Collaborative International Dictionary
machine language \machine language\ n. (Computers) a set of instructions[3] in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program.
Syn: machine code, binary code.
Wiktionary
n. (context programming English) The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from a high-level language by an assembler, compiler or interpreter.
WordNet
n. a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers [syn: computer language, computer-oriented language, machine-oriented language]
a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation [syn: machine code]
Usage examples of "machine language".
Ours was a stripped down system written in straight, efficient machine language, without benefit of Fortran.
He could see his future laid out before him, clean and predestined, like fifty years of happy machine language.