interpretation

Plural: interpretations

Noun

• a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
• the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
• an explanation that results from interpreting something
  • "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence"
• an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
  • "the edict was subject to many interpretations"
• 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

Examples

• Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
• The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma
• The interpretation of the rules

Synonyms

interpreting, reading, rendering, rendition, version

Related Words

interpret, interpretative, interpreter, interpretive, valuation