Assembler
Noun · Development
Definitions
A program that translates human-readable assembly language mnemonics (MOV, ADD, JMP) into machine code — the binary instructions a processor can execute directly.
In plain English: A tool that converts low-level code written in short abbreviations into the raw numbers that a CPU understands.
Example: "NASM is the assembler we use to build the bootloader; it outputs flat binaries with no runtime."