Definition of interpretation

• n. - The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
• n. - The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
• n. - The power or explaining.
• n. - An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
• n. - The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.