What is interpreted?

Interpreted means someone is translating or explaining something else so it makes sense to others.

Imagine you're playing a game with your friend, and you both speak different languages. You can't understand what they say, but there's another person who knows both languages, that’s an interpreter. They hear what your friend says in their language and then explain it to you in yours so you know what to do next.

When something is interpreted, it's like having a translator for ideas. A computer program can be written in one kind of code, but someone, or another program, might need to understand it in a different way before it can work. That’s where the interpreter comes in. It looks at the code and translates it step by step, just like your friend's translator does.

Sometimes you don't want to wait for the whole message to be translated all at once, you want to hear it as it goes. An interpreter works that way too: it handles one part of the message at a time, making things run smoothly and clearly.