interpretation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
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interpretation (plural interpretations)
- The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
- The power or explaining.
- An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
- The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
- (physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
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act of interpreting
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sense given by an interpreter
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power or explaining
artist's way of expressing his thought
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process of applying general principles to the explanation of the results
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[edit] External links
- interpretation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- interpretation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
