interpretation
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See also: Interpretation and interprétation
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”) Morphologically interpret + -ation
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪnˌtɝpɹəˈteɪʃən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈtæɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧pre‧ta‧tion
Noun
interpretation (countable and uncountable, plural interpretations)
- (countable) 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
- (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
- (uncountable, linguistics, translation studies) The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
- 1994, Richard K. Seymour, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Translation and Interpreting: Bridging East and West : Selected Conference Papers, University of Hawaii Press (→ISBN), page 11
- I believe that interpretation, particularly consecutive interpretation, is an art. I also believe, however, that the skill of consecutive interpretation can be taught, but only up to a point.
- 2013, Sana Loue, Handbook of Immigrant Health, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 61:
- The most pervasive need of non-English-speaking immigrants and refugees is interpretation for every English transaction. Interpretation is needed in stores, schools, and job training, and it is of critical importance in health care.
- Synonym: interpreting
- Hyponyms: simultaneous interpretation, consecutive interpretation
- 1994, Richard K. Seymour, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Translation and Interpreting: Bridging East and West : Selected Conference Papers, University of Hawaii Press (→ISBN), page 11
- (uncountable) The power of explaining.
- (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
- (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
- (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
- (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
- heritage interpretation
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Translations
act of interpreting
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sense given by an interpreter
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the discipline of translating a spoken language
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power or explaining
artist's way of expressing his thought
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process of applying general principles to the explanation of the results
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heritage interpretation — see heritage interpretation
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See also
- (logic): valuation
Further reading
- “interpretation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “interpretation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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