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Interpretation (logic)
In logic, also called a structure, an interpretation gives meaning to a formal language by fixing a domain of objects and assigning each non-logical symbol a denotation over it.
Interpretation of theories and interpretability strength
An interpretation of a theory T in a theory S is a syntactic translation under which S proves every translated theorem of T, enabling comparison of logical strength.
Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey concern the meanings assigned to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 film, whose monolith, HAL 9000, and Star Child are never explained.
Interpretations of quantum mechanics
Interpretations of quantum mechanics, also called the philosophy of quantum mechanics, are accounts of what the theory's mathematics, especially the wave function, says about the world.
Interpretative phenomenological analysis
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research method, introduced by Jonathan A. Smith in the United Kingdom in 1996, that examines lived experience through in-depth interviews.
Interpreter (computing)
An interpreter is a program that executes code in another language at the software level, often evaluating source or bytecode directly instead of producing a native executable.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri's 1999 Houghton Mifflin debut story collection of nine Bengali diaspora stories, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the New Yorker Prize for Best First Book.
Interpreter of Meluhha
The interpreter of Meluhha (Sumerian eme-bal me-luh-ha-ki) was a Mesopotamian translation specialist for trade with Meluhha, widely identified with the Indus civilization, attested around 2200-2000 BC.
Interpretive description
Interpretive description is a qualitative research methodology for nursing and applied health disciplines, introduced by Sally Thorne and colleagues in 1997 to generate practice-relevant knowledge.
Interpretive structural modeling
Interpretive structural modeling is a method that turns expert judgments about how variables influence each other into a hierarchy, developed by John N. Warfield in the 1970s.
InterPro
InterPro is a free database at EMBL-EBI that classifies protein sequences into families and predicts domains and sites, integrating signatures from 13 member databases since its creation in 1999.
Interprocedural analysis
Interprocedural analysis is static program analysis that extends dataflow analysis across procedure boundaries, incorporating procedure calls and calling contexts rather than analyzing each function in isolation.
Interprofessional simulation
Interprofessional simulation, or Sim-IPE, is a teaching method in which nursing, medical, pharmacy, and other students share simulated clinical scenarios to learn teamwork together, improving communication.
Interpromium
Interpromium, also Interpromum or Interbromio, a Roman pagus turned vicus of the Marrucini on the Via Valeria between Corfinium and Teate, near Torre de' Passeri, Abruzzo, with amphitheater and ponderarium.
Interpunct
The interpunct, or middle dot, is a dot at mid-letter height used to separate words in Classical Latin and still used in Catalan and abbreviations.
Interquartile range
The interquartile range (IQR), also known as the midspread or middle 50%, is the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles, a robust measure of statistical dispersion less affected by extreme values than the standard deviation.
Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage, also called miscegenation, is marriage across racial or ethnic lines. Banned by U.S. anti-miscegenation laws until Loving v. Virginia (1967); intermarried newlyweds rose from 3% (1967) to 17% (2015).
Interracial marriage in the United States
Interracial marriage in the United States, also called intermarriage, is marriage across racial lines. Banned by state anti-miscegenation laws from 1664 onward, it was legalized nationwide by Loving v. Virginia (1967); approval reached 94% by 2021.
Interregnum
Interregnum (Latin inter + regnum, "between reigns"): a period without a leader between reigns or regimes, from the Roman interrex to the Ottoman 1402-1413 succession wars, the Great Interregnum 1245-1273, England 1649-1660, the papal sede vacante, and Gramsci's political concept.
Interrex
Interrex (plural interreges): temporary Roman Republican magistrate, patrician and usually ex-consul, holding consular power for five-day terms to preside over consular elections; distinct from the dictator, last attested in 52 BC with Pompey's sole consulship.
Interrill erosion
Interrill erosion, also called sheet erosion, is the removal of soil in thin layers by raindrop impact and shallow overland flow, the first stage of water erosion on a hillslope.
Interrobang
Interrobang (‽): nonstandard punctuation mark combining question mark and exclamation point, also written ?! or !?. Proposed in 1962 by adman Martin K. Speckter; encoded as Unicode U+203D; rarely used in formal writing.
Interrogation
Interrogation, the custodial questioning of suspects by police, spans the coercive third degree, the 1966 Miranda warnings, accusatorial methods like the Reid technique, and information-gathering models such as PEACE, with false confessions contributing to roughly 12% of US wrongful convictions.
Interrogation (1982 film)
Przesłuchanie (Interrogation), 1982 Polish political drama by Ryszard Bugajski; Stalinist-era cabaret singer Tonia Dziwisz jailed and tortured to sign a false confession; banned seven years, premiered December 1989, Krystyna Janda won Cannes Best Actress 1990.
Interrogation (2020 TV series)
Interrogation is a 2020 American non-linear true-crime drama on CBS All Access, created by John Mankiewicz and Anders Weidemann, based on the Bruce Lisker case; its 10 episodes can be watched in any order except first and last.
Interrogation (पूछताछ) (2025 film)
Interrogation (पूछताछ) is a 2025 Hindi psychological thriller directed by Ajoy Varma Raja, released on ZEE5 on 30 May 2025, about four suspects interrogated after a retired judge's death; stars Rajpal Yadav and Manu Singh.
Interrogative word
Interrogative words, or question words such as English who, what, when, where, why, and how, ask for specific information. Covers English word order, subject and indirect questions, the what/which contrast, and cross-linguistic wh-word position and sound patterns.
Interrupt
An interrupt, also called a computer or CPU interrupt, is a signal that makes a processor suspend its current program, run a handler routine, and then resume.
Interrupt handler
An interrupt handler, also called an interrupt service routine (ISR), is software the processor runs in response to a hardware interrupt, suspending the current program to service events like key presses.
Interrupt latency
Interrupt latency is the delay between an interrupt request being raised and the first instruction of its service routine, a central performance metric for real-time systems.