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interpretation
  1. (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
  2. (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
  3. (linguistics) The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
  4. (uncountable) The power of explaining.
  5. (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
  6. (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
  7. (physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
  8. (logic) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “He provided an interesting interpretation of what the metaphors in the novel represented.”
      “She cared not what interpretation he would put on her snottiness.”
      “I asked my psychologist to provide me with an interpretation of my recurring dream.”
interpreter
  1. One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator.
  2. (figuratively) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit.
  3. (computing) A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “As for the use of the Maori language, how can an interpreter translate adequately on the spur of the moment?”
      “Rather than just speculating on the painter's intentions, the art interpreter seeks to communicate a broader range of relationships to the modern viewer.”
      “By the mid-fifties, Greenberg's critical style was clearly different from that of Harold Rosenberg, his chief rival as an interpreter of Abstract Expressionism.”
interpreting
  1. (countable) Synonym of interpretation (an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure)
  2. (linguistics) Synonym of interpretation (the discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another)
interpretership
  1. A qualification in interpreting
  2. The state of being an interpreter
interpretationism
  1. (philosophy) The analysis of the mental by interpretation of the physical
interpretationist
interpretativeness
  1. Quality of being interpretative.
interpretress
  1. Alternative form of interpretess
interpretor
  1. Archaic form of interpreter.
interpretability
  1. The ability to be interpreted
  2. Examples:
    1. “There does, however, seem to be a difference between the two groups in the interpretability of their mammograms.”
      “Its students are both native and non-native speakers of English, and its concerns are intelligibility, comprehensibility, and interpretability.”
      “What matters is their interpretability, the meanings they attract, their fluctuant interpretive magnetism.”
interpretess
  1. (dated) A female interpreter.
interpretament
  1. (obsolete) interpretation
interpretationists
  1. plural of interpretationist
interpreterships
  1. plural of interpretership
interpretations
  1. plural of interpretation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Early interpretations of fossil skin impressions suggested that hadrosaur feet were webbed.”
      “There's an attempt to Australianize the romantic-comedy genre alongside, and in opposition to, international interpretations.”
      “The Kebra Negast is a book of Rastafarian spirituality and religious interpretations.”
interpretaments
  1. plural of interpretament
interpretresses
  1. plural of interpretress
interpretings
  1. plural of interpreting
interpretesses
  1. plural of interpretess
interpreters
  1. plural of interpreter
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There is a shortage of European language interpreters but no lack of Asian language speakers.”
      “The men, all of North African descent, were dressed casually and appeared in the dock with two interpreters.”
      “Some interpreters have Aristotle distinguish the sciences on the basis of their degree of abstraction from matter.”
interpretors
  1. plural of interpretor
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