interpretowane

Interpretowane is a Polish adjective and past participle formed from the verb interpretować. It describes something that is subjected to interpretation, explanation, or translation. In Polish grammar it is used to modify nouns, for example interpretowane dane (data that have been interpreted) or interpretowane wyniki (results that have been analyzed). The related noun is interpretacja. The term is common in both everyday language and scholarly writing to indicate that interpretation or explanation has taken place.

In computing, interpretowane languages are those whose typical implementations execute code with an interpreter rather than by compiling directly to native machine code. Such languages are often executed from source code or from an intermediate representation such as bytecode that runs on a virtual machine. The approach generally provides greater portability and faster development cycles, but may yield lower raw execution speed compared with ahead-of-time compiled languages. Many modern environments combine interpretation with Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation to improve performance.

Popular examples of interpretowane languages include Python, JavaScript, Ruby and PHP. Other languages, such as Java and C#, use a virtual machine and commonly employ JIT compilation, which blurs the line between interpretation and compilation. In practice, the distinction depends more on typical implementation than on formal language specifications, and some languages support both interpreted and compiled execution paths.

Beyond computing, interpretowane can describe data, texts or utterances that have been subjected to interpretation in research, criticism or analysis. The term thus signals an interpretive processing stage as opposed to a purely prescriptive or literal representation.