Difference between Interpretation and Rendition

What is the difference between Interpretation and Rendition?

Interpretation as a noun is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction. while Rendition as a noun is an interpretation of a musical score or a performance of a musical work.

Interpretation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction. A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning . The power of explaining. An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases. An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.

Example sentence: GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

Rendition

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An interpretation of a musical score or a performance of a musical work.The surrender or handing-over of a person or thing, especially from one jurisdiction to another.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.

Example sentence: My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.

We hope you now know whether to use Interpretation or Rendition in your sentence.

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