machine language
Definition
Programming language that can be directly understood and obeyed by a machine (computer) without conversion (translation). Different for each type of CPU, it is the native binary language (comprised of only two characters: 0 and 1) of the computer and is difficult to be read and understood by humans. Programmers commonly use more English-like languages (called high level languages) such as Basic, C, Java, etc., to write programs which are then translated into machine language (called a low level language) by an assembler, compiler, or interpreter.
machine language is in the Information Science & Technology subject.
machine language appears in the definitions of the following terms: reduced instruction set computing (RISC), programming language, assembler, machine code, program, assembly language, compiler and interpreter
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