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//tɹænzˈleɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The conversion of text from one language to another. countable, uncountable

    "This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published."

  2. 2
    the act of uniform movement wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the act of changing in form or shape or appearance wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The conversion of something from one form or medium to another. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    rewording something in less technical terminology wordnet
  2. 7
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language wordnet
  4. 9
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    a uniform movement without rotation wordnet
  6. 11
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome. countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm wordnet
  8. 13
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox. countable, uncountable
  9. 14
    (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same wordnet
  10. 15
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The automatic retransmission of a telegraph message. countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:; An ascension to Heaven without death. countable, uncountable
  12. 17
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:; A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another. countable, uncountable
  13. 18
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:; A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another. countable, uncountable
  14. 19
    The act of translating, in its various senses:; The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:; A transfer of a disease from one body part to another. countable, uncountable
  15. 20
    The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses. countable

Etymology

From Middle English translacioun (“transfer, translation”), from Anglo-Norman translacioun, from Latin trānslātiō, from trānslāt-, the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, transport, transform, translate”). Equivalent to translate + -ion. Displaced native Old English wending.

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