Associations to the word «Executable»

Wiktionary

EXECUTABLE, adjective. Capable of being executed.
EXECUTABLE, noun. (computing) A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.
EXECUTABLE CODE, noun. (computing) Instructions for a computer in a form the computer can directly use (i.e. which it can execute). Derived from source code by compiling or assembling and linking.

Dictionary definition

EXECUTABLE, adjective. Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky