Other Concepts of Interpretation
There are other uses of the term "interpretation" that are commonly used, which do not refer to the assignment of meanings to formal languages.
In model theory, a structure A is said to interpret a structure B if there is a definable subset D of A, and definable relations and functions on D, such that B is isomorphic to the structure with domain D and these functions and relations. In some settings, it is not the domain D that is used, but rather D modulo an equivalence relation definable in A. For additional information, see Interpretation (model theory).
A theory T is said to interpret another theory S if there is a finite extension by definitions T′ of T such that S is contained in T′.
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