translation
Meanings
noun
- The act of translating, in its various senses:
- The conversion of text from one language to another.
- The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
- The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
- A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
- 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.
- The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
- A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
- The automatic retransmission of a telegraph message.
- The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
- An ascension to Heaven without death.
- A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
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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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