<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who interprets.</li><li>a person who provides an oral translation between speakers who speak different languages.</li><li>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.</li><li>Compare compiler (def 2).</li><li>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.</li></ul>