Interpretation
the act of interpreting, expounding, or explaining that INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW 178 INTERSTATE COM. COMMISSION which is unintelligible, not understood, or not obvious; the term having a special legal signification as well as a general one. In mathematics, the process of explaining results arrived at by the application of mathematical rules. When, for example, an algebraic definition is laid down, there is frequently some restriction implied in making the definition, so that the result to which it leads presents more cases than can be explained by it, or even than was contemplated by it. Thus the abbreviation of aa, aaa, into a², a³, and the rules which spring from it, lead to results of the for a-², aº, a2, etc.
These results, until interpreted, are without any intelligent algebraic meaning. INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW, THE. See INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM- MISSION: RAILWAYS.