(thing) by Potatoswatter Wed Jun 26 2002 at 16:05:00

A name given to a particular microprocessor instruction for use in assembly languages. Mnemonics generally correspond to opcodes of some type, but the number of differently-named instructions in an ISA should not be used as a measure of complexity.

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