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Interpret vs Interpretability - What's the difference?

interpret | interpretability |

As nouns the difference between interpret and interpretability

is that interpret is interpreter while interpretability is the ability to be interpreted.

interpret

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
  • * The Holy Bible, (w) i. 23.
  • Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
  • * The Holy Bible, (w) xli. 8.
  • And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
  • To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
  • To act as an interpreter.
  • Synonyms

    * translate, explain, solve, render, expound, elucidate, decipher, unfold, unravel

    References

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    interpretability

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The ability to be interpreted
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, date=August 1, Michael Baumgartner, The Causal Chain Problem, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9113-2, volume=69, issue=2, pages=
  • , passage=Data collection, of course, has to comply with specific constraints that guarantee the causal interpretability of that data. }}