A computer program that translates high-level source code written by people into machine language that a computer can execute.

computer program that translates source code written in a high-level language into machine code or another lower-level language

A computer program that translates high-level programming code written by humans into machine-readable instructions that a computer can execute

(computing) a tool used to create executable code for a platform other than the one on which the compiler is running

a computer program that processes source code before it is passed to a compiler

to compile source code again, or the process of recompiling source code

A person who works as both a translator and an editor.