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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

décompiler

Pronunciation / Transliteration: deh-kom-pee-lay

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Decompile/diːˈkəm.paɪl/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il a réussi à décompiler le programme pour analyser son code source."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To translate computer code written in a low-level language or machine code back into a higher-level language such as C or Java.

    "The software engineer tried to decompile the executable file to inspect its proprietary algorithms."
  2. 2

    To reverse the operation of a compiler, translating binary object code into source code.

    "Security researchers often decompile firmware to identify hidden vulnerabilities and backdoors."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in the mid-20th century as computing developed, combining the English prefix 'de-' (denoting reversal or undoing) with 'compile' (derived from Latin 'compilare', meaning to plunder or put together). It emerged specifically within computer science to describe the reverse process of software compilation.

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