Definitions for "interlingua"
A language used as an intermediate language in translating from a source language to a target language; -- used especially in machine translation by computers; as, some machine translation systems use Esperanto as an interlingua.
an artificial language which is used in machine translation to represent the meaning of a text in a (natural) language- independent way.
an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to English and the Romance languages