"decompile" meaning in English

See decompile in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /diːkəmˈpaɪl/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-decompile.wav [US] Forms: decompiles [present, singular, third-person], decompiling [participle, present], decompiled [participle, past], decompiled [past]
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  1. (computer science) To recreate the original source code from a compiled executable. Derived forms: decompilable Related terms: decompiler Translations (to recreate the original source code): ապաբանաքաղել (apabanakʻaġel) (Armenian), decompileren (Dutch), takaisinkääntää (Finnish), décompiler (French), dekompilieren (German), декомпилировать (dekompilirovatʹ) (Russian), descompilar (Spanish)

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