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Execution vs Interpretation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between execution and interpretation

is that execution is the act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances) while interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.

execution

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
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  • The state of being executed (accomplished).
    • The battle plan was successfully executed .
  • The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
  • (legal) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
  • (legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
  • (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
    • The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker .
    Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.

    Derived terms

    * execution style * posthumous execution

    Related terms

    * execute * executioner * executive * executor

    Hyponyms

    * (penalty of death) crucifixion, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection

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    interpretation

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) 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.
  • (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
    • Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''
  • (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.

    • Related terms

    * interpret * interpretative * interpreter * interpretive

    See also

    * (logic) valuation

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