Interpretation

Quick meaning: Interpretation is a noun meaning (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.

Meaning

(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
2. (uncountable) The power of explaining.
3. (countable) An artist's way of expressing thought or embodying a conception of nature through art.
4. (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
5. (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
6. (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
7. (uncountable, linguistics, translation studies) The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).

Example Sentences

The interpretation of the rules

The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma

Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

Interpretation studies is a young discipline, much younger than translation studies, and it cannot claim a long tradition and history of reflexions ^([sic]) and studies.

Word Forms

• interpretations

Synonyms for interpretation

Depending on context, synonyms include gloss, reading, interpreting, rendition, rendering, version.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interpreting, reading, version, rendering, rendition, interpret.

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