Hypertext Webster Gateway: "compiler"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Compiler \Com*pil"er\, n. [OE. compiluor; cf. OF. compileor, fr.
L. compilator.]
One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
compiler
n 1: a person who compiles (or writes for) encyclopedias [syn: {encyclopedist}]
2: (computer science) a program that decodes instructions
written in a higher order language and produces an
assembly language program [syn: {compiling program}]
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