RENDITION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of rendition in English

(Definition of rendition from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of rendition from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of rendition

rendition
But often her approach seems a bit mechanical, as if 'neutral' renditions from a conscientiously prepared score are somehow enough to get the music across.
Recordings were verified by two independent adult listeners to ensure accurate and interpretable renditions.
All of the recorded target words were then spliced onto a single rendition of the carrier phrase spoken by the same speaker.
My rendition will be brief, its brevity hopefully excusable because by now it is very familiar.
For the most part, however, non-professional discourses surrounding the recorded voice treat it as extremely close reproduction rather than rendition or a representation.
Initially, all the children occupied themselves with the monophonic rendition of songs.
Word-priming effects are thus largest when two renditions of a spoken word also share one (or more) context-specific details.
Unfortunately, this kind of rendition incurs a high cost in the most common form of access to terms.
A rendition of the piece performed exactly to the metronome markings would last almost exactly 700 seconds.
A more sophisticated form of tonepainting characterises the musical rendition of the word 'reple' (bars 17-24).
The following folktale is a typical rendition of the events.
The sentences were presented over headphones in six randomized blocks, with each block containing all participants' renditions of the same sentence.
We shall spare the reader another rendition of them here.
Space does not permit a rendition of all of them.
My translation of this passage is much indebted to an anonymous reviewer who pointed out an important ambiguity in my original rendition.
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Translations of rendition

in Chinese (Traditional)
(對歌曲,音樂或詩歌的)詮釋, (同 extra_ordinary rendition)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(对歌曲,音乐或诗歌的)诠释, (同 extra_ordinary rendition)…
in more languages
in Polish
in Turkish
in Russian
wykonanie, interpretacja…
yorumlama, icra, oynama…
исполнение, изображение…
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