The time during which a program is translated from source language into machine language.
The time when source code is compiled. Decisions made at compile time are constrained by the amount and kind of information encoded in source files.
The time from when the program is first loaded and until the program is parsed.
The time during which a source program is translated by a compiler to an object program. Compile time is usually used to indicate things that happen when a program is compiled.
The time when the compiler is translating the code to machine language so that it can be run.
In computer science, compile time refers to either the operations performed by a compiler (ie, compile-time operations) or programming language requirements that must be met by source code for it to be successfully compiled (ie, compile-time requirements).