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in·ter·pret·er  audio  (n-tūrpr-tr) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. One who translates orally from one language into another.
  2. 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).
  3. 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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