assembler

assembler [uh-sem-bler] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for assembler on Thesaurus.com noun

1. a person or thing that assembles.
2. Computers.
   1. Also called assembly routine.a language processor that translates symbolic assembly language into equivalent machine language.
   2. assembly language.

Origin of assembler First recorded in 1625–35; assemble + -er1 Related Words for assembler constructor, fabricator, producer, manufacturer, fitter, erector Examples from the Web for assembler Historical Examples of assembler

He was evidently no maker of clocks as “bits o’ mechanism,” or an assembler of parts.

Chats on Old Clocks

Arthur Hayden

The clockmaker, and even then there is something personal yet remaining, became an assembler of component parts.

Chats on Old Clocks

Arthur Hayden

In the hymns of the Rigveda he is the assembler of the people, the king, the pattern of just dealing.

The History of Antiquity, Volume IV (of 6)

Max Duncker

Nothing—whereas Penman had been reared in the factory where they were made, and had long been a foreman “assembler.”

A Tatter of Scarlet

S. R. Crockett

British Dictionary definitions for assembler assembler noun

1. a person or thing that assemblesSee compiler (def. 2)
2. a type of computer program that converts a program written in assembly language into machine codeCompare compiler (def. 2)
3. another name for assembly language