The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Language \Lan"guage\, n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua
   the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See
   Tongue, cf. Lingual.]
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   1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas;
      specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the
      voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the
      organs of the throat and mouth.
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   Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which
         usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two
         or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to
         the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one
         person communicates his ideas to another. This is the
         primary sense of language, the use of which is to
         communicate the thoughts of one person to another
         through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are
         represented to the eye by letters, marks, or
         characters, which form words.
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   2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other
      instrumentality.
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   3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas,
      peculiar to a particular nation.
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   4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an
      individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
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            Others for language all their care express. --Pope.
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   5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man
      express their feelings or their wants.
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   6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of
      ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
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            There was . . . language in their very gesture.
                                                  --Shak.
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   7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or
      department of knowledge; as, medical language; the
      language of chemistry or theology.
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   8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.]
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            All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell
            down and worshiped the golden image.  --Dan. iii. 7.
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   9. Any system of symbols created for the purpose of
      communicating ideas, emotions, commands, etc., between
      sentient agents.
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   10. Specifically: (computers) Any set of symbols and the
       rules for combining them which are used to specify to a
       computer the actions that it is to take; also referred to
       as a computer lanugage or programming language; as,
       JAVA is a new and flexible high-level language which has
       achieved popularity very rapidly.
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   Note: Computer languages are classed a low-level if each
         instruction specifies only one operation of the
         computer, or high-level if each instruction may specify
         a complex combination of operations. Machine language
         and assembly language are low-level computer
         languages. FORTRAN, COBOL and C are high-level
         computer languages. Other computer languages, such as
         JAVA, allow even more complex combinations of low-level
         operations to be performed with a single command. Many
         programs, such as databases, are supplied with special
         languages adapted to manipulate the objects of concern
         for that specific program. These are also high-level
         languages.
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   Language master, a teacher of languages. [Obs.]

   Syn: Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction;
        discourse; conversation; talk.

   Usage: Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect.
          Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended
          use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the
          language of articulate sounds; tongue is the
          Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken
          language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the
          forms of construction peculiar to a particular
          language; dialects are varieties of expression which
          spring up in different parts of a country among people
          speaking substantially the same language.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

assembly language \assembly language\ n.
   1. (Computers) an artificial computer language with mnemonic
      codes representing the basic machine-language instructions
      of a computer, which can be interpreted by an assembler to
      produce a computer program in machine language. Also
      informally referred to as assembler.

   Note: Writing a program in assembly language is very much
         simpler than writing the machine instructions in binary
         code, and the use of such a language greatly increases
         the efficiency of the process of writing computer
         programs. See also programming language, FORTRAN,
         BASIC.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

assembly language
    n 1: a low-level programing language; close approximation to
         machine language

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Assembly Language

    (AL) A language for industrial robots
   developed at Stanford University in the 1970s.

   ["The AL Language for an Intelligent Robot", T. Binford in
   Langages et Methods de Programation des Robots Industriels,
   pp. 73-88, IRIA Press 1979].

   ["AL User's Manual", M.S. Mujtaba et al, Stanford AI Lab, Memo
   AIM-323 (Jan 1979)].

   (1994-11-24)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

assembly language
ASM
assembly code

    (Or "assembly code") A symbolic representation of
   the machine language of a specific processor.  Assembly
   language is converted to machine code by an assembler.
   Usually, each line of assembly code produces one machine
   instruction, though the use of macros is common.

   Programming in assembly language is slow and error-prone but
   is the only way to squeeze every last bit of performance out
   of the hardware.

   Filename extension: .s (Unix), .asm (CP/M and others).

   See also second generation language.

   (1996-09-17)