| interpretation | |
| 1. n. An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction. | |
| the interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma. | |
| 2. n. A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning. | |
| Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture. | |
| 3. n. (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). | |
| (hyponyms, en, simultaneous interpretation, consecutive interpretation) | |
| 4. n. The power of explaining. | |
| 5. n. An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. | |
| 6. n. An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases. | |
| 7. n. (physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language. | |
| 8. n. (logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus. | |
| 9. n. the practice and discipline of explaining natural and cultural heritage to visitors at museums, historic sites, zoos, aquaria, science centres, art galleries, etc. Also called heritage interpretation | |
