compiler — English Dictionary

Noun

1. One who compiles.

   Examples

   a compiler of poetry anthologies

   my favourite crossword compiler

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   Had I travelled the same route by train (the Trans-Siberian Express, say), it would have taken me a week to get there - enough time to notice that the clocks at all the stations along the way (as well as at all other stations in the totalitarian USSR) stubbornly stuck to Moscow Time. […] That bizarre arrangement, convenient for the compilers of train timetables but highly confusing for everyone else, was in force until the early 2000s, when railway stations across Russia finally adopted local times, like everywhere else in the world.

2. A computer program that transforms source code into object code.

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   As a result, many compilers automatically allocate blocks of memory and then parcel chunks out to programs with a suballocator when needed. That is, the compiler allocates a chunk of some 4,000 bytes and then parcels this memory out to you in bits and pieces when you need it.

   The recommended Apple Objective-C compiler, Clang/LLVM (versions 4.2 and above) provides support for autosynthesis of declared properties. This means that the compiler will automatically synthesize declared properties […]

Noun

1. a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)

   Broader terms

   writerauthor

2. (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program

   Synonyms

   compiling program

   Broader terms

   programprogrammecomputer programcomputer programme