interpreter
noun
- a person who interprets; specif., a person whose work is translating a foreign language orally, as in a conversation between people speaking different languages
- a computer program that translates and executes, statement by statement, a program written in a high-level language
See interpreter in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĭn-tûrˈprĭ-tər)
noun- One who translates orally from one language into another.
- One who gives or expounds an interpretation: “An actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world” (Alec Guinness).
- Computer Science A program that translates an instruction into a machine language and executes it before proceeding to the next instruction.
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