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.

Noun

(countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.

(uncountable) A profusion of details.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail , a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}

Something considered trivial enough to ignore.

(countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.

(military) A temporary unit or assignment.

A part distinct from the whole.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.