assemblern.
/əˈsɛmblə/, U.S. /əˈsɛmblər/ One who assembles.
1. One who brings together, collects, or convenes.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > gathering together > one who
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > one who convokes
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1635 D. Person Varieties i. Pref. 2 The Builder of Cities, Assembler of men.
1780 E. Burke Refl. Exec. in Wks. IX. 273 None of..the assemblers of the mob..have been convicted.
2. One who takes part in an assembly; e.g. a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > assembling of people or animals > one taking part in an assembly
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a1660 Hammond To Cheynel in Wks. I. 193 (R.) Your confession of faith which you say shall be published by your assemblers.
1663 J. Birkenhead Assembly-man 8 Yet 'tis some Relief to a Sequester'd Person to see two Assemblers snarl for his Tithes.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 118 If they can but produce..visionary Assemblers, to attest a Story of a Witch upon a Broom-Stick.
3. One who assembles a machine or its parts.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun] > one who operates machine > who assembles
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1898 Cricket & Football Field 1 Oct. 3 ‘Assemblers’—men who buy [cycle] frames..then put in whatever fittings they or their customers may be inclined to use.
1908 Daily Chron. 21 Feb. 10/6 Arc lamp assemblers.
1909 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 6/6 One cannot get such a cycle ready made, but a good assembler can build it up.
4. The mechanism of a linotype machine which assembles the matrices and space bands to form a line of type. Also attributive.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 523/2 They are set up in proper order in the assembler block.
1905 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Handbk. (ed. 3) 93 When the line is accidentally overset..it is necessary to remove some of the matrices from the assembler.
1908 J. S. Thompson Mech. Linotype (ed. 3) ii. 15 The assembler shute spring..should be curved so as to tend to throw the bottom of the matrix towards the assembler wheel.
1925 J. R. Rogers Linotype Instr. Book 1 Beginning with the touch of a finger upon a Keybutton..a matrix is released and falls by gravity upon a constantly running belt which delivers the matrix into the ‘assembler’.
5. Computing.
a. A program for converting instructions written in low-level symbolic code or assembly language into machine code. Cf. compiler n. 1b.
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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > system or utility programmes > translator > into machine code
assembly routine1951
compiler1953
assembly program1955
assembler1959
assembler program1977
1959 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 2 139 Instead of absolute binary output, this assembler produces a SQUOZE deck.
1967 Computer Group News Jan. 4/2 An assembler operates almost on a symbol-by-symbol basis.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xix. 305 The difference between a compiler and an assembler is explained.
1975 Sci. Amer. May 38/3 An assembly-language program must be translated into machine language before it is committed to a memory; this conversion is accomplished by an assembler, which checks the assembly-language program for certain types of errors and, if none are found, produces the desired machine-language code.
1979 D. R. Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach (1980) x. 291 This program, called an assembler, accepts mnemonic instruction names, decimal numbers, and other convenient abbreviations which a programmer can remember easily, and carries out the conversion into the monotonous but critical bit-sequences.
1984 J. Hilton Choosing & using your Home Computer 165/2 Assembler packages will usually only work with a disk drive.
b. = assembler language n. at Compounds.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > [noun] > assembly code
assembly language1964
assembler language1968
assembler code1975
assembler1979
1979 Sci. Amer. Apr. 75/2 Simple languages called assemblers replace the binary notation with symbols that are more concise and more easily remembered.
1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 238/3 People who are not familiar with assembler should consult a book before they start.
Compounds
Special combinations.
assembler code n. = assembly language n. at assembly n. Compounds 2.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > [noun] > assembly code
assembly language1964
assembler language1968
assembler code1975
assembler1979
1975 Austral. Computing Jrnl. July 78/1 Another potential hazard occurs when the programmer writes structured source code and the compiler generates unstructured assembler code.
1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 230/3 The first listing is the assembler code.
assembler language n. Computing = assembly language n. at assembly n. Compounds 2.
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society > computing and information technology > programming language > [noun] > assembly code
assembly language1964
assembler language1968
assembler code1975
assembler1979
1968 New Scientist 11 Jan. 79 The makers offer a library of programs to go with it [sc. a desk computer], including..an assembler language, and a general mathematics library.
1979 W. S. Caelli Microcomputer Revol. p. xii Till recently most microcomputer programs had to be written in assembler language.
assembler program n. Computing = sense 5 above.
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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > system or utility programmes > translator > into machine code
assembly routine1951
compiler1953
assembly program1955
assembler1959
assembler program1977
1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 152/3 The translation is done by the computer itself with an ‘assembler’ program.
1980 C. S. French Computer Sci. xxv. 189 The manufacturer provides a program called an assembler or assembler program which translates the assembly language into machine code.
1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 39/1 (advt.) Integral linker allows assembler programs to be linked together.
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