compiler
noun
com·pil·er
kəm-ˈpī-lər 
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The Official Charts Company is celebrating a major milestone, and the chart compiler has been pulling back the curtain to reveal which artists have ruled one of the U.K.’s most competitive tallies for the past decade.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
For us, what this meant really was building a new compiler in Windows.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
The data compilers, Benjamin and Joshua Moshes, are college-age brothers from Newton, Massachusetts, near Boston, who built the site during their winter break.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Instead of a typical compiler that translates code to run on a specific computer, Java compilers translate code to bytecode, which can be run on any computer possessing a Java virtual machine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2025
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
For us, what this meant really was building a new compiler in Windows.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
The data compilers, Benjamin and Joshua Moshes, are college-age brothers from Newton, Massachusetts, near Boston, who built the site during their winter break.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Instead of a typical compiler that translates code to run on a specific computer, Java compilers translate code to bytecode, which can be run on any computer possessing a Java virtual machine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2025
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compiler
noun
com·pil·er
kəm-ˈpī-lər
1
: one that compiles
2
: a computer program that automatically translates an entire set of instructions written in a computer programming language (as BASIC) into machine language
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