Recompiled

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Transformed source code by running it through a compiler again; expressed in another way, it denotes the process of converting a previously compiled program back into executable form; it may also imply successive compilation steps for updating or optimizing software
2. Subject to a second or subsequent compilation, meaning the source code or intermediate form is processed again to produce executable output; it can also refer to recompilation performed to fix, improve, or adapt software functionality
3. The act of compiling again, which involves reprocessing source files or components to regenerate executable programs; this can include modifications, corrections, or enhancements applied after the initial compilation phase

Etymology: "Recompiled" is the past tense and past participle of "recompile," meaning to compile again. The verb is formed from the prefix re- ("again, back") attached to "compile," so the two parts carry their meanings intact: a thing is gathered together once, then gathered together again. The prefix has a long pedigree. It descends from Latin "re-," which English inherited through Old French, where it was already a productive way of forming verbs that meant repetition or return. "Compile" itself came into English by the same route, from Old French and ultimately Latin "compilare," meaning to plunder or pillage, literally to carry off by heaping together. Writers in English used the sense of gathering material from many sources long before the word took on its modern association with computing. That computing sense explains why "recompile" is so common today. When a programmer edits source code, the program must be translated into machine-readable form again, and that act of re-translation is exactly what the prefix describes.

Synonyms: reassembled, reprocessed, reconstructed, recreated, rebuilt