machine translation

English

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Noun

machine translation (countable and uncountable, plural machine translations)

1. (translation studies) The act of translating something from one language to another by means of a machine, especially a computer.
2. (computing, programming) The production of instructions in a computer language that are equal in meaning to that in another language.

Derived terms

• interlingual machine translation
• machine-translate

Related terms

• automatic translation (mostly used by non-native speakers)
• computer assisted translation (partial synonym)
• machine-aided translation (partial synonym)
• machine translator
• mechanical translation (obsolete)
• MTL
• MT

Translations

act of translating something by means of a machine

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: itzulpengintza automatikoa
• Bulgarian: компю́търен прево́д m (kompjútǎren prevód)
• Catalan: traducció automàtica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機器翻譯／机器翻译 (zh) (jīqì fānyì), 機械翻譯／机械翻译 (zh) (jīxiè fānyì), 計算機翻譯／计算机翻译 (jìsuànjī fānyì), 機譯／机译 (jīyì)

• Czech: strojový překlad m
• Danish: maskinoversættelse (da) c
• Dutch: machinevertaling f, computervertaling (nl) f
• Esperanto: maŝintradukado, maŝintraduko
• Estonian: masintõlge (et)
• Finnish: koneellinen kääntäminen, konekääntäminen
• French: traduction automatique f
• Galician: tradución automática f
• Georgian: მანქანური თარგმნა (mankanuri targmna)
• German: maschinelle Übersetzung (de) f
• Hebrew: תרגום מכונה m (tirgúm mekóna)
• Hungarian: gépi fordítás (hu)
• Italian: traduzione automatica f
• Japanese: 機械翻訳 (ja) (きかいほんやく, kikai hon'yaku)
• Korean: 기계번역 (ko) (gigyebeonyeok), 기계 번역 (gigye beonyeok)
• Malay: terjemahan mesin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maskinoversettelse m

• Persian: ترجمه ماشینی (tarjome-ye mâšini)
• Polish: tłumaczenie maszynowe n
• Portuguese: tradução automática f
• Romanian: traducere automată f
• Russian: маши́нный перево́д (ru) m (mašínnyj perevód)
• Serbo-Croatian: strojno prevođenje n
• Spanish: traducción automática (es) f
• Swedish: maskinöversättning (sv) c
• Telugu: యాంత్రిక అనువాదం (yāntrika anuvādaṁ)
• Thai: การแปลภาษาอัตโนมัติ (gaan-bplɛɛ paa-sǎa àt-dtà-noo-mát)
• Turkish: otomatik çeviri, otomatik tercüme
• Ukrainian: машинний переклад m (mašynnyj pereklad)

act of translating a computer language

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 計算機語言翻譯／计算机语言翻译 (jìsuànjī yǔyán fānyì)

• Finnish: konekielelle kääntäminen
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: машинний переклад m (mašynnyj pereklad)