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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.”)

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.

program that converts assembly language to machine code

nanodevice

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 of assembler (hard masculine inanimate)

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

assembler

  1. to assemble
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).

Unadapted borrowing from English assembler.

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

assembler m inan

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

Borrowed from English assembler.

assembler c

  1. (computing) assembly language
    Synonym: assemblerspråk
  2. (computing) an assembler (program that converts assembly language into machine code)
    Synonym: assemblator
  • assembler”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish), (Can we date this quote?)