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BINARY PROGRAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system
Example:
the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems
Synonyms:
binary; binary program
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("binary program" is a kind of...):
computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)
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