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interpretation

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 51.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

interpreting reading version rendering rendition interpret meaning translation characterization translate

Often followed by

of is and in that to which was as

Word family

interpret interpretational interpretations interpretative interpretatively interpreted interpreting interpretive interpretively interprets

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