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interpretation.

An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.

14 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/Received-Pronunciation/ɪnˌtɝpɹəˈteɪʃən/Canada, General-American/ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈtæɪʃən/Australia
  1. An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.

    countable
    The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma
    The interpretation of the rules
  2. A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.

    countable
    Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
  3. The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).

    uncountable
  4. The power of explaining.

    uncountable
  5. An artist's way of expressing thought or embodying a conception of nature through art.

    countable
  6. An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

    countable
  7. An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.

    countable
  8. An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.

    countable
  9. Short for heritage interpretation

    abbreviation · alt-of · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English interpretacioun, from the Anglo-Norman form of Old French interpretacion, from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”). Morphologically interpret + -ation.

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