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A form of source code — Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other translator, or to be carried out directly by an interpreter.

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Meanings

nounsourcecode (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of source code.

    To look at the sourcecode, just open the .java file that you are interested in.

    2004, Ivor Horton, Beginning Java™ 2
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    [O]ne observed that the sourcecode itself would be inoperable without a particular item of hardware over which it maintained tight and exclusive control[.]

    1984, The Journal of Industrial Economics

    The interface files lack the navigational context which was to be extracted from the sourcecode.

    2012, Roberto Moreno-Díaz, Franz Pichler, Alexis Quesada-Arencibia, editors, Computer Aided Systems Theory
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