INTERPRETATION

Interpretation

An interpretation is an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal language. Many formal languages used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation. The general study of interpretations of formal languages is called formal semantics.

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interpretation

Noun

  1. An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
    the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
  2. A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
    Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''
  3. The power of explaining.
  4. An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
  5. An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
  6. An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
  7. An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.


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