machine translation

American  

[muh-sheen trans-ley-shuhn, tranz‐] / məˈʃin trænsˌleɪ ʃən, trænz‐ /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. the process of translating text or speech from one natural language to another by means of a computer.

2. a translation produced by a computer.

   software for accurate machine translations.

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machine translation British  

noun

1. the production of text in one natural language from that in another by means of computer procedures

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Etymology

Origin of machine translation

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Reddit is currently working to bring machine translation to Bengali and additional languages.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 31, 2025

The Vatican released an Italian language edition, and The Washington Times used a machine translation as the source for quotations.

From Washington Times • Oct. 29, 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

For sustained multilingualism on the internet, machine translation models require large volumes of training data generated in two languages parallel to one another.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2023

These will emerge from research and promoting awareness in areas such as machine translation, standardization, searching for information, automatic summarizing, and so on.

From Interviews (1998-2001) by Lebert, Marie