object code

object code. Copyright. The machine-readable language compiled from a computer programmer’s source code. • Object code is difficult to reverse-engineer, so publicly available software is always in this form. Object code is protected by copyright and patent laws. Because people cannot read or understand it, object code is deposited with the U.S. Copyright Office more often than source code. Cf. SOURCE CODE.

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