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

(en noun)

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,

The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

(computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.

(electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.