# Interpretant

The meaning a sign produces in the person who reads it (the word SEP uses for the interpretation a sign generates).

**Source:** “the understanding that we have of the sign/object relation” [Peirce's Theory of Signs (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/)

See also: [Icon](/reference/glossary/icon), [Index](/reference/glossary/index-sign), [Symbol](/reference/glossary/symbol).

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