a person who provides an oral translation between speakers who speak different languages.
3.
Computers.
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.
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.
Origin
1350-1400;Middle Englishinterpretour < Anglo-French; see interpret, -er2
Examples from the web for interpreters
The main disadvantage of interpreters is computer programs run slower than if compiled.
British Dictionary definitions for interpreters
interpreter
/ɪnˈtɜːprɪtə/
noun
1.
a person who translates orally from one language into another
2.
a person who interprets the work of others
3.
(computing)
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
a machine that interprets the holes in a punched card and prints the corresponding characters on that card
"one who translates spoken languages; a translator of written texts," late 14c., from Old French interpreteor, from Late Latin interpretatorem, agent noun from interpretari (see interpret).