interpretation

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.

Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

Again, the multiplist would hold that the grounds for separating admissible from inadmissible interpretations cannot be the same as the grounds for preferability among admissible interpretations.

The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).

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.

Interpretation studies is a young discipline, much younger than translation studies, and it cannot claim a long tradition and history of reflexions ^([sic]) and studies.

The power of explaining.

An artist's way of expressing thought or embodying a conception of nature through art.