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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Compiler

/(kŏm*pīl"ẽr)/ · Com·pil·er · IPA /kəmˈpaɪlɚ/
01 n. One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
  1. 1.
    One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
  2. 2.
    a computer program that decodes instructions written in a higher-level computer language to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.(Computers)