SOURCE CODE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("source code" is a kind of...):

ASCII text file (a text file that contains only ASCII characters without special formatting)

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