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Presentation vs Interpretation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between presentation and interpretation

is that presentation is the act of presenting, or something presented while interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.

presentation

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Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(wikipedia presentation) (en noun)
  • The act of presenting, or something presented
  • * Hooker
  • Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
  • A dramatic performance
  • An award given to someone on a special occasion
  • A lecture or speech given in front of an audience
  • (medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician, e.g., "Thirty-four-year-old male presented in the emergency room with slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation."
  • (medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth
  • (fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent
  • (mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.
  • The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
  • * Blackstone
  • If the bishop admits the patron's presentation , the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.

    Anagrams

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    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