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machine code
This term refers to the binary instructions that a CPU interprets directly. It is the most primitive level of software, consisting entirely of ones and zeros, which makes it virtually unreadable to humans compared to high-level languages like Python or C++.
In technical discourse, it is often contrasted with assembly language. While assembly is a human-readable mnemonic representation of machine code, machine code itself is the final, executable output that requires no further compilation or interpretation by the hardware.
Meanings
The lowest-level programming language consisting of binary digits that a computer's central processing unit can execute directly without further translation.
The processor executes machine code instructions to perform basic arithmetic and logic operations.