interpretation

  1. Noun.  (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction. .
  2. Noun.  (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning ..
  3. Noun.  (uncountable) The power of explaining..
  4. Noun.  (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature..
  5. Noun.  (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases..
  6. Noun.  (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language..

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