object code

n. The code produced by a compiler from the source code, usually in the form of machine language that a computer can execute directly, or sometimes in assembly language.

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object code - the machine-language output of a compiler that is ready for execution on a particular computercomputer code, code - (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions

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[′äb‚jekt ‚kōd] (computer science) The statements generated from source code by a compiler, constituting an intermediate step in the translation of source code into executable machine language.

object code

The machine code generated by a source code languageprocessor such as an assembler or compiler. A file ofobject code may be immediately executable or it may requirelinking with other object code files, e.g. libraries, toproduce a complete executable program.

object code

The machine language representation of programming source code. A compiler (software) converts the source code into object code and links it to other object code modules (libraries) to become an executable program. Object code is an old term that has no relationship to object technology which came after it. See executable code, linker, machine language and object-oriented programming.

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noun the machine-language output of a compiler that is ready for execution on a particular computer

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