source code

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

source code
    n 1: program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be
         translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into
         the object code for a particular computer before execution

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

source code
source
source language

   <language, programming> (Or "source", or rarely "source
   language") The form in which a computer program is written by
   the programmer.  Source code is written in some formal
   programming language which can be compiled automatically into
   {object code} or {machine code} or executed by an
   {interpreter}.

   (1995-01-05)