Abstract
This article is devoted to the problem of terminographic semantization in education as in the process of scientific and educational communication the role of terminological culture of people is also increasing which favours the most effective result of the research. An accurately formulated definition fixing a term has a great scientific importance. In the article definitions and interpretations of educational terms in English, Russian and Kazakh are studied to define the difference between the concepts “definition” and “interpretation” which fix and identify terms in the terminological dictionaries. Analyzing dictionary entries it is found that these terms are often mutually substituted.