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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The language from which a translation is to be made or from which a word is borrowed.
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- noun linguistics, translation studies The language from which a translation is done.
- noun computing The language of the
source code to becompiled .
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- noun a language that is to be translated into another language
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