Summarisation vs Interpretation - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between summarisation and interpretation

is that summarisation is (countable) the act of summarising while interpretation is interpretation.

* summarization

(countable) The act of summarising

Jim is very adept at summarisation .

(uncountable) The process of summarising

After summarisation , these documents seem much simpler.

(countable) A summary; the result of summarising

Jim's summarisation of the incident was very useful.

(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.

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