"decompiler" meaning in English

See decompiler in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /diːkəmˈpaɪlə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-decompiler.wav [US] Forms: decompilers [plural]
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  1. (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler. Translations (computer program): դեկոմպիլյատոր (dekompilyator) (Armenian), 反編譯器 /反编译器 (fǎnbiānyìqì) (Chinese Mandarin), takaisinkääntäjä (Finnish), décompilateur (French), 逆コンパイラー (gyaku konpairā) (alt: ぎゃくコンパイラー) (Japanese), кері аударғыш (kerı audarğyş) (Kazakh), декомпилятор (dekompilätor) (Kazakh), 역컴파일러 (yeok'keompailleo) (Korean), декомпилятор (dekompilyator) (Kyrgyz), دیکامپایلر (Persian), декомпилятор (dekompiljator) (Russian), povratni kompilator [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (e79dea5 and 7f4db16). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.