rendition

noun

1. the act of rendering.
2. a translation.
3. an interpretation, as of a role or a piece of music.
4. the legal procedure or process of sending a suspected criminal to another country to be interrogated or detained, usually for law-enforcement purposes.Compare extraordinary rendition.See also extradition.
5. Archaic. surrender.

noun

1. a performance of a musical composition, dramatic role, etc
2. a translation of a text
3. the act of rendering
4. archaic surrender

verb

5. (tr) to subject (a person) to extraordinary rendition

n.

c.1600, “surrender of a place or possession,” from obsolete French rendition “a rendering,” noun of action from Old French rendre “to deliver, to yield” (see render (v.)). Meaning “translation” first recorded 1650s; that of “an acting, a performing” first recorded 1858, American English.