CONCH-SHELL
\kˈɒnt͡ʃʃˈɛl], \kˈɒntʃʃˈɛl], \k_ˈɒ_n_tʃ_ʃ_ˈɛ_l]\
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[L.] (Zool.) Sea-trumpet (Triton variegatus); twelve inches or more long; white, mottled with brown and yellow; inside, white, streaked with black. Used as trumpet by South Sea Islanders and Australians, who bore a hole about one-fourth the distance from the tip, and blow it as a flute. Warm seas. Fam. Muricidae, ord. Prosobranchiata, class Gasteropoda.
By Henry Percy Smith
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machine language
- a programming language designed for use on specific class of computers a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation Programmed language directly understood and executed by a machine, typically computer. Requires no conversion or translation. English-like languages, known also as high level are industry-renown: Basic, C, Java, the like. These coded programs, then converted into machine language, low an assembler, compiler, interpreter. It is different for each type of CPU, often having unique operation sets. in native binary comprised only two characters: 0 1. difficult to read, less likely humans.