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renumberer

renumberer noun: a program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).

Noun

renumberer (plural renumberers)

  1. (dated) A program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).
    • Bit Bucket software tor the Atari including disassembler, renumberer, character generator[…]1980, Byte, volume 5
    • A 260-line program, which took other renumberers between two and four minutes to renumber, took the Monkey Wrench only eight seconds.1982 July 26, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 29, page 41

Forms of renumberer

pluralrenumberers

Origin of renumberer

From renumber + -er.

Questions about renumberer

What does renumberer mean?
Renumberer means a program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).
What part of speech is renumberer?
Renumberer is a noun.
What is the plural of renumberer?
The plural of renumberer is renumberers.

Words near renumberer in the dictionary

  1. renules
  2. renumb
  3. renumbed
  4. renumber
  5. renumbered
  6. renumberer
  7. renumberers
  8. renumbering
  9. renumberings
  10. renumbers
  11. renumbing

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