interpretation
/ɪnˌtɝpɹəˈteɪʃən/ noun B2- An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version. · The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma· The interpretation of the rules
- 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.
Plural interpretations
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“Yes,” looked the invalid, his eye beaming with delight at the ready interpretation of his meaning.
“I should have more faith,” he said; “I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
The old man's words seemed to me to bear only one interpretation.
On this point she was soon satisfied; and two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.
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