machine language

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

machine language (countable and uncountable, plural machine languages)

1. (programming) The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level language by a compiler or interpreter.
   • 1979, Apple II Reference Manual, Cupertino: Apple Computer Inc., page 48:

     Machine language is certainly the most efficient language on the Apple, albeit the least pleasant in which to code. The Monitor has special facilities for those of you who are determined to use machine language to simplify creating, writing, and debugging machine language programs.

   • 1986, Lawrence S. Orilia, Computers and Information:

     Though machine language is efficient for computers, it is inefficient for programmers.

Synonyms

• machine code

Translations

set of instructions for a computer

• Afrikaans: masjientaal
• Arabic: لُغَة آلَة f (luḡa(t) ʔāla)
• Belarusian: машы́нны код m (mašýnny kod)
• Bengali: যান্ত্রিক ভাষা (jantrik bhaśa)
• Breton: areg ijinenn
• Bulgarian: маши́нен ези́к m (mašínen ezík)
• Catalan: llenguatge de màquina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機器語言 / 机器语言 (jīqì yǔyán), 機器碼 / 机器码 (jīqìmǎ)

• Czech: strojový kód m
• Danish: maskinkode c
• Dutch: machinetaal (nl) f
• Esperanto: maŝinkodo
• Estonian: masinkood
• Finnish: konekieli (fi)
• French: langage machine (fr) m, code machine (fr)
• Galician: código máquina m
• Georgian: მანქანის ენა (mankanis ena)
• German: Maschinensprache (de) f, Maschinencode m, Maschinenkode m
• Greek: γλώσσα μηχανής (el) f (glóssa michanís), κώδικας μηχανής m (kódikas michanís)
• Hebrew: שְׂפַת מְכוֹנָה (he) (s'fát m'khoná)
• Hindi: मशीनी भाषा (maśīnī bhāṣā)
• Hungarian: gépi kód (hu), gépi nyelv, számítógépkód
• Icelandic: vélamál n, vélarmál (is) n, (rare) maskínumál n
• Indonesian: bahasa mesin (id)
• Irish: meaisínteanga f, teanga mheaisín f
• Italian: linguaggio macchina m, codice macchina f
• Japanese: 機械語 (ja) (きかいご, kikai-go), マシン語 (mashin-go)
• Khmer: ភាសា​ម៉ាស៊ីន (pʰiesaa maasɨn), ភាសាយន្ត (pʰiesaa yon)
• Korean: 기계어 (gigyeeo)
• Lithuanian: mašininis kodas
• Malayalam: യന്ത്രതല ഭാഷ (yantratala bhāṣa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maskinkode m, maskinspråk n

  Nynorsk: maskinkode m, maskinspråk n

• Persian: زبان ماشین (zabân-e mâšin)
• Polish: język maszynowy m inan, kod maszynowy m inan
• Portuguese: código de máquina (pt) m
• Romanian: limbaj mașină n
• Russian: маши́нный язы́к m (mašínnyj jazýk), маши́нный код m (mašínnyj kod)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: машински језик, машински код m, стројни језик m

  Latin: mašinski jezik m, mašinski kod m, strojni jezik m

• Slovak: strojový kód m
• Slovene: strojna koda f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: mašinowa rěč f

• Spanish: lenguaje de máquina (es) m
• Swedish: maskinkod c
• Thai: ภาษาเครื่อง (paasăa krêuang)
• Turkish: makine dili (tr)
• Ukrainian: маши́нний код m (mašýnnyj kod)
• Urdu: آلاتی زبان (ālātī zabān)
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ máy