Comprehension vs Interpretation - What's the difference?
comprehension | interpretation |
thorough understanding
(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
(computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(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.
As nouns the difference between comprehension and interpretation
is that comprehension is thorough understanding while interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.comprehension
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(en noun)Synonyms
* understandinginterpretation
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- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''