source code

noun

: a computer program in its original programming language (such as FORTRAN or C) before translation into object code usually by a compiler

Examples of source code in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The language-adjacent nature of coding means that AI tools can be used to ferret out vulnerabilities in source code with far greater precision than human code auditing might. —

Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024 Anyone can check Telegram's open source code and see there were no changes. —

Mia Sato, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2024 The marquee news there is the public release of Android 15, along with the operating system’s source code being posted at the Android Open Source Project. —

Steven Aquino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 Meta has gone farther than its competitors in releasing the source code to its own large language model, Llama, which has been downloaded more than 300 million times. —

Calmatters, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for source code

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