"compiler" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

A person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) (synset 109966436)
is a type of: author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
subtypes:
- encyclopaedist, encyclopedist - a person who compiles information for encyclopedias
- lexicographer, lexicologist - a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language
(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program (synset 106585776)
referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

is a type of: computer program, computer programme, program, programme - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
subtypes:
- c compiler - a compiler for programs written in C
- fortran compiler - a compiler for programs written in FORTRAN
- lisp compiler - a compiler for programs written in LISP
- pascal compiler - a compiler for programs written in Pascal
has: parser - a computer program that divides code up into functional components

same as: compiling program