machine language

Questions about machine language

What does machine language mean?

machine language means "a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for machine language?

Close synonyms include computer language, computer-oriented language, machine-oriented language, machine code. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is machine language a common word?

machine language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.