machine translation
Americannoun
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the process of translating text or speech from one natural language to another by means of a computer.
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a translation produced by a computer.
software for accurate machine translations.
noun
Etymology
Origin of machine translation
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Earlier this year, the company extended machine translation to Hindi, one of India’s most spoken languages, and also tapped cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar as a brand ambassador.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 31, 2025
The Washington Times used machine translation for quotes in this report.
From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Another use case is machine translation, which has helped provide content for the 334 different language versions of the encyclopedia, again generally with human supervision.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2023
Modern AI systems—such as language models, machine translation programs or image-generating algorithms—are constructed from neural networks.
From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023
Applications developed from basic research endeavors include a variety of configurations of machine translation, information extraction, knowledge acquisition, intelligent teaching, and translator workstation systems.
From Multilingualism on the Web by Lebert, Marie
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