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interpreter

[ in-tur-pri-ter ]
/ ɪnˈtɜr prɪ tər /
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noun
a person who interprets.
a person who provides an oral translation between speakers who speak different languages.
Computers.
  1. hardware or software that transforms one statement at a time of a program written in a high-level language into a sequence of machine actions and executes the statement immediately before going on to transform the next statement.Compare compiler (def. 2).
  2. an electromechanical device that reads the patterns of holes in punched cards and prints the same data on the cards, so that they can be read more conveniently by people.
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Origin of interpreter

1350–1400; Middle English interpretour<Anglo-French; see interpret, -er2
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British Dictionary definitions for interpreter

interpreter
/ (ɪnˈtɜːprɪtə) /

noun
a person who translates orally from one language into another
a person who interprets the work of others
computing
  1. a program that translates a second program to machine code one statement at a time and causes the execution of the resulting code as soon as the translation is completed
  2. a machine that interprets the holes in a punched card and prints the corresponding characters on that card

Derived forms of interpreter

interpretership, nouninterpretress, fem n
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