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machine code

Set of instructions executed directly by a computer's central processing unit (CPU)

Also known as machine language

Instance of: formal language
Subclass of: programming language

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In computing, machine code is data encoded and structured to control a computer's central processing unit (CPU) via its programmable interface. A computer program consists primarily of sequences of machine-code instructions. Machine code is classified as native with respect to its host CPU since it is the language that the CPU interprets directly. Some software interpreters translate the programming language that they interpret into a virtual machine code (bytecode) and process it with a P-code machine.

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Has part(s) of the class: machine instruction
Has use: computer program
Used by: computer program
Uses: machine language

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