translator

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that translates, especially:
2. n. One employed to render written works into another language.
3. n. A computer program or application that renders one language or data format into another.
4. n. An interpreter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who or that which translates.
2. n. Specifically— One who renders something spoken or written in one language into another: as, he held the office of public translator.
3. n. A cobbler of a low class, who manufactures boots and shoes from the material of old ones, selling them at a low price to second-hand dealers.
4. n. plural Second-hand boots mended and sold at a low price.
5. n. In telegraphy, a sensitive receiving-instrument used for retransmitting a message, or for translation: commonly called a relay.
6. n. Any instrument for converting one form of energy into another: thus, the magneto-electric engine which transforms the power of a steam-engine into electricity is a translator.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who translates text, film, or other material into a different natural language.
2. n. by extension One that makes a new version of a source material in a different language or format.
3. n. proscribed A language interpreter.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.
2. n. (Teleg.), engraving A repeating instrument.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. someone who mediates between speakers of different languages
2. n. a program that translates one programming language into another
3. n. a person who translates written messages from one language to another