Is REPL a compiler?

From Wikipedia: The REPL is commonly misnamed an interpreter . This is a misnomer—many programming languages that use compilation (including bytecode compilation) have REPLs, such as Common Lisp and Python. Interactive interpreters use REPLs.

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Is there a Java REPL?

The Java Shell tool (JShell) is an interactive tool for learning the Java programming language and prototyping Java code. JShell is a Read-Evaluate-Print Loop (REPL), which evaluates declarations, statements, and expressions as they are entered and immediately shows the results. The tool is run from the command line.

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