translator

noun13

1. •
   A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another.
2. •
   A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
3. •
   A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.
4. •
   (figurative) A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium.

   • Mr. C. Blair Leighton... lithographer... was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process. — 1855
5. •
   (nonstandard) Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech.
6. •
   (US) A relay station that retransmits incoming television signals after automatically adjusting their frequency to avoid interference.
7. •
   (historical) A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
8. •
   (slang, historical) A used and repaired shoe, boot, or other item of clothing.
9. •
   (historical) Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods.
10. •
    The retinaculum of asclepiads.
11. •
    (no longer used) Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.
12. •
    (no longer used) Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.

    • ... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk. — 2019
13. •
    (no longer used) A thing that converts energy from one form to another.