Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Software (Section 3 - No. 2)

Which of the following describes the role of an interpreter?

Translates the whole source code into machine code all at once.

Executes the machine code directly.

Translates and executes the code line by line.

Defragments a disk.

An interpreter translates and executes code one line at a time, unlike a compiler which translates the entire code at once.