Interpretation (IPA: /ˌɪnˌtɝpɹɪˈteɪʃən/)
| Interpretation (n.) |
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. |
| Interpretation (n.) |
The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture. |
| Interpretation (n.) |
The power or explaining. |
| Interpretation (n.) |
An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. |
| Interpretation (n.) |
The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases. |
| Interpretation |
Facilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages |
| Interpretation |
The understanding of works (such as texts) |
| Interpretation |
Assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal language |
| Interpretation |
Assignment of meanings to various concepts, symbols, or objects under consideration |
| Interpretation |
Concept in model theory |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences." - E. O. Wilson |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "I don't sing a song without it meaning something to me, or adding my own interpretation to them." - Jack Vidgen |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song." - Charles Hartshorne |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it." - Mahatma Gandhi |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language." - Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten |
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