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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At the forefront of Reddit’s international push is machine translation, or translating content for global audiences.
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
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
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
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