A machine-encoded operation executed by a processor. An assembly language mnemonic can denote one machine instruction or an assembler expansion into several.
The arrangement of bits specifying an operation, its operands and any immediate constants. A fixed-width encoding has a finite budget shared between these fields.
An operation-selecting field of a machine instruction. A primary opcode can select a family whose individual operations are distinguished by secondary function fields.

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