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An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
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the interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma.
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A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
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Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
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The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
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The power of explaining.
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An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
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An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
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An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
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(model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
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The practice and discipline of explaining natural and cultural heritage to visitors at museums, historic sites, zoos, aquaria, science centres, art galleries, etc. Also called heritage interpretation, mediation, guiding, etc.