machine language

English

Noun

machine language (countable and uncountable, plural machine languages)

(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., p. 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

Arabic: لُغَة آلَة‎ f (luḡa(t) ʾāla)
Belarusian: машы́нны код m (mašýnny kod)
Bengali: যান্ত্রিক ভাষা (jantrik bhaṣa)
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 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 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 (きかいご, kikai-go), マシン語 (mashin-go)
Khmer: ភាសាម៉ាស៊ីន (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 mašin)
Polish: język maszynowy m, kod maszynowy m
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
Roman: mašinski jezik m, mašinski kod m, strojni jezik m
Slovak: strojový kód m
Slovene: strojna koda f
Spanish: lenguaje de máquina (es) m
Swedish: maskinkod c
Thai: ภาษาเครื่อง (paasăa krêuang)
Turkish: makine dili (tr)
Ukrainian: маши́нний код m (mašýnnyj kod)
Upper Sorbian: mašinowa rěč f
Urdu: آلاتی زبان‎ (ālātī zabān)
Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ máy