Interpretation vs Transcription - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between interpretation and transcription

is that interpretation is interpretation while transcription is the act or process of transcribing.

(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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(en noun)

The act or process of transcribing.

Something that has been transcribed, including:

# (music) An adaptation of a composition.

These interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.

# A recorded radio or television programme.

# (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.

(genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.