instruction mnemonic

<programming> A word or acronym used in assembly language to represent a binary machine instruction operation code. Different processors have different instruction set and therefore use a different set of mnemonics to represent them.

E.g. ADD, B (branch), BLT (branch if less than), SVC, MOVE, LDR (load register).

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. « Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique « Instruction Address Register « instruction mnemonic » instruction prefetch » instruction scheduling » instruction set