1. (

• compilation ,
• compiling

) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" ;

1. (

• roll_up ,
• collect ,
• accumulate ,
• pile_up ,
• amass ,
• compile ,
• hoard

) get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" ;

2. (

• compose ,
• compile

) put together out of existing material; "compile a list" ;

3. (

• compile ,

) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed ;