A systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic.

synonym: exposition.

Roget 522: interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning etc. 516.    translation; rendering, rendition; redition^†; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew etc. (indication) 550; clavis^†, crib, pony, trot [U.S.].    exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary; inference etc. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium^†, note; elucidation, dilucidation^†; eclaircissement [Fr.], mot d'enigme [Fr.].    [methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology [Med.], semiology, semeiology^†, semiotics; metoposcopy^†, physiognomy; paleography etc. (philology) 560; oneirology acception^†, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version.    equivalent, equivalent meaning etc. 516; synonym; paraphrase, metaphrase^†; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary etc. 562; polyglot.    ... show more