interpretation

Meaning

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

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
in‧ter‧pre‧ta‧tion
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪntɚpɹəˈteɪʃən/
Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”) Morphologically interpret + -ation

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