Some industrial language implementations (e.g. Clojure and Hermes JavaScript engine) use this word to mean the act of pre-compiling the source language to VM specific bytecode. Angular (web framework) uses this word to mean converting its HTML template and TypeScript to JavaScript.
Some industrial language implementations (e.g., Clojure and Hermes JavaScript engine) apply this term for ahead-of-time compilation of source code into VM-specific bytecode. Similarly, Angular utilizes this term to represent the transformation of its HTML templates and TypeScript into JavaScript.