Literal interpretation asserts that a biblical text is to be interpreted according to the "plain meaning" conveyed by its grammatical construction and historical context.
In his rulings and writings, the former law professor and Justice Department official did much to rehabilitate the approach to constitutional interpretation he called "originalism" -- the debatable notion that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the meaning attached to its provisions at the time they were adopted.
It can be interpreted according to any belief system.
The results obtained should be interpreted according to the properties investigated.
Our findings indicate that the freezing point of goat milk must be interpreted according to the preservative used.
In the succeeding paper, relevant experimental data will be interpreted according to the theory consistent with these observations.
II, §2, cl. 2. The United States ratified the Convention with the expectation that it would be interpreted according to its terms.
The precise meaning of such an ornament varies from one style of music to another and must be interpreted according to the conventions governing a particular style.
Charles Fried, a noted professor of contracts at Harvard Law School, told me that the law is well settled that contracts should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of their words and should reflect the intent of the parties, and that technical or specialized terms should be interpreted according to trade usage.
"We wanted to come up with a potential test that could close one of the last major remaining quantum physics loopholes that could still allow entangled particle experiments to be interpreted according to classical physics," explains MIT postdoc Andrew Friedman.
Throughout Ginsburg's tenure on the Court, the ascendant legal theory has been originalism — that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning in the eighteenth century, when it was written and ratified.
