instruction mnemonic

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

instruction mnemonic
op code

   <programming> A word or acronym used in {assembly language} to
   represent a {binary} machine instruction {operation code}.
   Different processors have different {instruction set} and
   therefore use a different set of {mnemonics} to represent
   them.

   E.g. ADD, B (branch), BLT (branch if less than), {SVC}, MOVE,
   LDR (load register).

   (1997-02-18)