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interpreter definition

in·ter·preter (in tʉr′prə tər)

noun

  1. a person who interprets; specif., a person whose work is translating a foreign language orally, as in a conversation between people speaking different languages
  2. a computer program that translates and executes, statement by statement, a program written in a high-level language

Etymology: ME interpretour < Anglo-Fr < OFr interpreteur < LL(Ec) interpretator

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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