[drvortex]

Strictly you are right. However, by the strict definition of a compiler, an interpreter is nothing but a sort-of "real time compiler".

But a compiler has come to mean a program that translates source-code into machine code.

By this new understanding, a transpiler is a combination of a compiler and a decompiler with different input and output languages.

So po-tay-toes, po-taa-toes. No one cares, we know what is meant by transpiler.