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  • machine code — (language)   The representation of a computer program that is read and interpreted by the computer hardware (rather than by some other machine code program). A program in machine code consists of a sequence of "instructions" (possibly interspersed with data). An instruction is a binary string, (often written as one or more octal, decimal or hexadecimal numbers). Instructions may be all the same size (e.g. one 32-bit word for many modern RISC microprocessors) or of different sizes, in which case the size of the instruction is determined from the first word (e.g. Motorola 68000) or byte (e.g. Inmos transputer). The collection of all possible instructions for a particular computer is known as its "instruction set". Each instruction typically causes the Central Processing Unit to perform some fairly simple operation like loading a value from memory into a register or adding the numbers in two registers. An instruction consists of an op code and zero or more operands. Different processors have different instruction sets - the collection of possible operations they can perform. Execution of machine code may either be hard-wired into the central processing unit or it may be controlled by microcode. The basic execution cycle consists of fetching the next instruction from main memory, decoding it (determining which action the operation code specifies and the location of any arguments) and executing it by opening various gates (e.g. to allow data to flow from main memory into a CPU register) and enabling functional units (e.g. signalling to the ALU to perform an addition). Humans almost never write programs directly in machine code. Instead, they use programming languages. The simplest kind of programming language is assembly language which usually has a one-to-one correspondence with the resulting machine code instructions but allows the use of mnemonics (ASCII strings) for the "op codes" (the part of the instruction which encodes the basic type of operation to perform) and names for locations in the program (branch labels) and for variables and constants. Other languages are either translated by a compiler into machine code or executed by an interpreter
  • machine head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-made — made or constructed by machine
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
  • merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
  • merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
  • misapprehend — to misunderstand.
  • misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
  • monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
  • near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
  • newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
  • night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
  • ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
  • noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
  • oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
  • onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
  • parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
  • philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • phytonadione — vitamin K1.
  • pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • pudding-head — a stupid person
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • radiant heat — heat energy transmitted by electromagnetic waves in contrast to heat transmitted by conduction or convection.
  • raven-haired — with glossy deep black hair
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • rhode island — US state
  • right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
  • right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
  • right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
  • running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
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