source code

noun

: a computer program in its original programming language (such as FORTRAN or C) before translation into object code usually by a compiler

Examples of source code in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Even two years ago, hackers could take the details of a disclosure and paste it into ChatGPT, then tell the bot to scan a public database of source code such as GitHub for other patterns which could then be exploited. —Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026

Native apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web are available for direct download or can be built from React source code via a GitHub repository. —Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026

In the summer of 2025, before killing Direct File, the federal government published most of the program’s source code on GitHub, an online repository. —Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026

These images hold an application’s source code and all the tools, dependencies, and libraries an application’s code needs to run as a container. —Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for source code

• afterload
• episode
• internode
• microcode
• multimode
• nematode
• nesselrode
• overflowed
• overload
• overrode
• radioed
• torpedoed