interpretation
Meanings
noun
- An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.
- A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
- The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
- The power of explaining.
- An artist's way of expressing thought or embodying a conception of nature through art.
- An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
- An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
- An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
- Short for heritage interpretation
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From Middle English interpretacioun, from the Anglo-Norman form of Old French interpretacion, from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”). Morphologically interpret + -ation.
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