1. The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list)
   "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours"
   - compilation

1. Get or gather together
   - roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, hoard 
2. Put together out of existing material
   "compile a list"
   - compose 
3. Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

See also: compilation, compiler

Type of: aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection, hive away, lay in, make, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store

Encyclopedia: Compile

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