English Explanatory Dictionary

transition

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
  2. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
  3. A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
  4. A change of key.
  5. A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
  6. A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
  7. The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
  8. Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
  9. A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
  10. The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
  11. A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
  12. Death; passing from life into death.
verb
  1. To make a transition.
  2. To bring through a transition; to change.
  3. To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

Pronunciation

/tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/ /tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/ /-sɪ-/ /-ʒən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-transition.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-transition.wav

Word forms

transition transitions transitioning transitioned

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle French transitionbor. English transition From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.

Synonyms

gender transition

Derived words

Darwinian transition demographic transition filtered-popping recursive transition network glass transition glass transition temperature phase transition positive transition post-transition metal transition economy transition function transition house transition map transition matrix transition point transition state transition technology transition temperature transition time transition town transition year transition zone detransition retransition transit transitional transition altitude transitionary transition element transitionist transition layer transition level transition metal transition strip

Translations

Bulgarian: преминавам Chinese Mandarin: 转变 Hungarian: átalakul Hungarian: átváltozik Italian: passare Māori: tauwhirowhiro Portuguese: transicionar
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