Implication and Interpretation

noun

• Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
  • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • synonyms: deduction, entailment
• A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
  • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • synonyms: significance, import
• An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
• A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
  • synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
• A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
  • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

• (n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
• (n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.

noun

• A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.
  • synonyms: reading, version
• The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance.
  • usage: "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving"
  • synonyms: rendition, rendering
• An explanation that results from interpreting something.
  • usage: "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence"
• An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious.
  • usage: "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning"
  • synonyms: interpreting, rendition, rendering

• (n.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
• (n.) The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream or of an enigma.
• (n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
• (n.) The power or explaining.
• (n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

(DoD) A part of the analysis and production phase in the intelligence process in which the significance of information is judged in relation to the current body of knowledge. See also intelligence process.