debugger

English

Etymology

debug +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈbʌɡə/
  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): /diːˈbʊɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /diˈbʌɡəɹ/

  • Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)

Noun

debugger (plural debuggers)

1. (programming) A computer program that helps the user to test and debug other programs, by enabling their step-by-step execution controlled by the user, setting of breakpoints, and monitoring values of variables.
   • 1965 January 15, J. B. Dennis, “Computer Research”, in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Quarterly Progress Report, no. 76‎^[1], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), archived from the original on 2010-07-03, page 360:

     6. Memorandum PDP-23, ID Invisible Debugger, August 20, 1964.

   • 1966 May 20, MIT Electrical Engineering Department, chapter ID, in PDP-23-1‎^[2], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, archived from the original on 2011-02-18, page 1:

     Invisible Debugger, commonly referred to as ID, a utility program in the PDP-1 time sharing system written to aid in the debugging of other programs. An advanced ID has been written (April, 1966) to allow all operations to be carried out either directly on drum fields or on running cores.

Translations

computer program

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: дебъ́гер m (debǎ́ger)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調試器／调试器 (tiáoshìqì), 調試程序／调试程序 (tiáoshì chéngxù), 調試工具／调试工具 (tiáoshì gōngjù)

• Czech: debugger m
• Dutch: debugger (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: virheenkorjausohjelma; debuggeri (fi) (colloquial)
• French: débogueur (fr), débugueur (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Debugger (de) m
• Greek: αποσφαλματωτής (el) m (aposfalmatotís)
• Hebrew: דבאגר m
• Hungarian: hibakereső (hu)
• Icelandic: kembiforrit n
• Indonesian: pengawakutu, perunut (id)
• Italian: debugger m
• Japanese: デバッガ (debagga)
• Korean: 디버거 (dibeogeo)
• Malay: penyahpepijat
• Maori: pūpatuiro
• Polish: odpluskwiacz m, debugger (pl) m
• Portuguese: debugger (pt) m, depurador (pt) m
• Romanian: depanator (ro) m
• Russian: отла́дчик (ru) m (otládčik), деба́ггер (ru) m (debágger)
• Spanish: depurador (es) m
• Swedish: avlusare
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• begrudge, buggered

Czech

Noun

debugger m inan

1. (programming) debugger

Declension

Declension of debugger (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	debugger	debuggery
genitive	debuggeru	debuggerů
dative	debuggeru	debuggerům
accusative	debugger	debuggery
vocative	debuggere	debuggery
locative	debuggeru	debuggerech
instrumental	debuggerem	debuggery

See also

• ladit

Portuguese

Noun

debugger m (plural debuggers)

1. (programming) debugger (program that helps the programmer debug code)

   Synonym: depurador