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installer

noun

Etymology

From install + -er.

  1. derived from *stel-✻
  2. derived from *stallaz✻ — “place, position”
  3. derived from *stall✻
  4. derived from īnstallō — “to install, put in place, establish”
  5. derived from installer
  6. inherited from installen
  7. formed as installer — “install + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who installs.

  2. A program that installs software in a computer and prepares it for use.

    • Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.

The neighborhood

Derived

coinstaller, offline installer, web installer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for installer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA