compiled

adjective

com·piled kəm-ˈpī(-ə)ld

Synonyms of compiled next

: gathered together especially from various sources

a compiled list/report

the compiled statistics from all three counties

… Freud was a prodigious writer. His compiled works amount to 23 volumes and cover thousands of pages of writing.—

Kenneth N. Levy

… stored in countless precious libraries is the compiled wisdom of all the world.—

The Harlequin

of computer code : processed through software that translates a complete set of high-level computer instructions into machine language before executing any of them

Compiled code is incomprehensible to most programmers, but there are ways to convert machine code back to a more human-friendly format …—

Mathew Schwartz

You will also notice more delays when going from function to function with the compiled program.—

David Kruglinski

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler

The first known use of compiled was in 1818

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“Compiled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compiled. Accessed 28 Dec. 2024.

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