assembler

See also: Assembler

English

Etymology

From assemble +‎ -er. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Some history on first use of word and each major sense would be interesting.”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛmb(ə)lɚ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

assembler (countable and uncountable, plural assemblers)

1. (programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
   • 1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35:

     The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.

2. (computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.

   I wrote that program in assembler.

3. (countable) One who assembles items.
   • 2014, Howard Waldrop, Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader:

     Our father worked as an assembler in a radio factory that would go out of business in the early 1960s, […]

4. (nanotechnology, countable) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
   • Assembler (nanotechnology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Synonyms

• (language): assembly, assembly language

Derived terms

• absolute assembler
• assembler language
• cross assembler
• disassembler
• molecular assembler

 

Related terms

• assemble
• assembly

Translations

program that converts assembly language to machine code

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: асемблер (asembler)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: assembler (cs) m
• Esperanto: asemblilo, kunmetilo
• Estonian: assembler (et)
• Finnish: konekielelle kääntäjä, konekielikääntäjä
• French: assembleur (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Assembler (de) m
• Greek: συμβολομεταφραστής (el) m (symvolometafrastís)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: smali (is)
• Japanese: アセンブラ (asenbura)
• Kazakh: ассемблер (assembler)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: составувач m (sostavuvač), асемблер m (asembler)
• Polish: asembler (pl) m, assembler (pl) m
• Portuguese: montador (pt) m
• Russian: ассемблер (ru) m (assembler)
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: assemblator c, assembler (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: trình hợp dịch

assembly language — see assembly language

one who assembles items

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kokoonpanija (fi), kokooja
• Portuguese: montador (pt) m

nanodevice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kokooja
• Portuguese: montador molecular m

See also

• compiler

Czech

Alternative forms

• asembler

Noun

assembler m inan

1. (programming) assembler (a tool that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code)
2. (programming) assembler, assembly (a programming language whose mnemonic instructions directly correspond to machine instructions for a particular processor)

Declension

Declension of assembler (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	assembler	assemblery
genitive	assembleru	assemblerů
dative	assembleru	assemblerům
accusative	assembler	assemblery
vocative	assemblere	assemblery
locative	assembleru	assemblerech
instrumental	assemblerem	assemblery

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French asembler, from Latin assimulāre. See also assimiler, a borrowed doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃.ble/

• audio

  (file)

Verb

assembler

1. to assemble

Conjugation

Conjugation of assembler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assembler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assemblant /a.sɑ̃.blɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assemblé /a.sɑ̃.ble/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assemble /a.sɑ̃bl/	assembles /a.sɑ̃bl/	assemble /a.sɑ̃bl/	assemblons /a.sɑ̃.blɔ̃/	assemblez /a.sɑ̃.ble/	assemblent /a.sɑ̃bl/
	imperfect	assemblais /a.sɑ̃.blɛ/	assemblais /a.sɑ̃.blɛ/	assemblait /a.sɑ̃.blɛ/	assemblions /a.sɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	assembliez /a.sɑ̃.bli.je/	assemblaient /a.sɑ̃.blɛ/
	past historic2	assemblai /a.sɑ̃.ble/	assemblas /a.sɑ̃.bla/	assembla /a.sɑ̃.bla/	assemblâmes /a.sɑ̃.blam/	assemblâtes /a.sɑ̃.blat/	assemblèrent /a.sɑ̃.blɛʁ/
	future	assemblerai /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	assembleras /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	assemblera /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁa/	assemblerons /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/	assemblerez /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁe/	assembleront /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assemblerais /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	assemblerais /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	assemblerait /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/	assemblerions /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁjɔ̃/	assembleriez /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁje/	assembleraient /a.sɑ̃.blə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	assemble /a.sɑ̃bl/	assembles /a.sɑ̃bl/	assemble /a.sɑ̃bl/	assemblions /a.sɑ̃.bli.jɔ̃/	assembliez /a.sɑ̃.bli.je/	assemblent /a.sɑ̃bl/
	imperfect2	assemblasse /a.sɑ̃.blas/	assemblasses /a.sɑ̃.blas/	assemblât /a.sɑ̃.bla/	assemblassions /a.sɑ̃.bla.sjɔ̃/	assemblassiez /a.sɑ̃.bla.sje/	assemblassent /a.sɑ̃.blas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assemble /a.sɑ̃bl/	—	assemblons /a.sɑ̃.blɔ̃/	assemblez /a.sɑ̃.ble/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• assemblée
• qui se ressemble s’assemble

Further reading

• “assembler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rassemble, rassemblé
• ressembla
• sembleras

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English assembler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈsɛm.blɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛmblɛr
• Syllabification: a‧ssem‧bler

Noun

assembler m inan

1. (computer languages, countable or uncountable) Alternative spelling of asembler

Declension

Declension of assembler

	singular	plural
nominative	assembler	assemblery
genitive	assemblera	assemblerów
dative	assemblerowi	assemblerom
accusative	assembler	assemblery
instrumental	assemblerem	assemblerami
locative	assemblerze	assemblerach
vocative	assemblerze	assemblery

Further reading

• assembler in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English assembler.

Noun

assembler c

1. (computing) assembly language

   Synonym: assemblerspråk

2. (computing) an assembler (program that converts assembly language into machine code)

   Synonym: assemblator

Declension

Declension of assembler
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	assembler	assemblern	assemblers	assemblersarna
Genitive	assemblers	assemblerns	assemblerss	assemblersarnas

Related terms

• assemblator
• assemblera
• assemblering

References

• assembler in Svensk ordbok (SO)