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Interpretation vs Signification - What's the difference?

interpretation | signification |

As nouns the difference between interpretation and signification

is that interpretation is interpretation while signification is the act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.

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.
  • See also

    * (logic) valuation

    signification

    English

    Noun

  • The act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.
  • Evidence for the existence of something.
  • A meaning of a word.
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