source code

[ sawrs kohd ]

noun

, Computers.

1. program instructions written in a programming language that is readable by humans and that must be converted to machine language before being executed. Compare object code ( def ).

source code

noun

1. computing the original form of a computer program before it is converted into a machine-readable code

source code

/ sôrs /

1. Code written by a programmer in a high-level language and readable by people but not computers. Source code must be converted to object code or machine language by a compiler before a computer can read or execute the program.
2. Compare object code

Example Sentences

Babitz’s life is the source code for her best books, 1974’s “Eve’s Hollywood” and 1977’s “Slow Days, Fast Company”; her stories are ecstatically, deliriously alive, charged with sexual energy and deadly wit.

From Los Angeles Times

WordPress.org makes its source code open, which mean anyone can use it to create and redistribute their own tools for free.

From BBC

"This is the source code of how this whole thing works."

From Salon

Developers can write tens of thousands of lines of source code to create programs that will run on a computer.

From New York Times

The trial is now being expanded to the rest of the Cabinet Office and engineers have published the Redbox "source code" to encourage collaboration with more developers.

From BBC