'Transition' definitions:
Definition of 'transition'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: passage, transition]
noun
An event that results in a transformation [syn: conversion, transition, changeover]
noun
A change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
noun
A musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: transition, modulation]
noun
A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
verb
Cause to convert or undergo a transition; "the company had to transition the old practices to modern technology"
verb
Make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another); "The airline transitioned to more fuel-efficient jets"; "The adagio transitioned into an allegro"
Definition of 'Transition'
From: GCIDE
- Transition \Tran*si"tion\, n. [L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See Transient.]
- 1. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. [1913 Webster]
- There is no death, what seems so is transition. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Rhet.) A passing from one subject to another. [1913 Webster]
- [He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Biol.) Change from one form to another. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This word is sometimes pronounced tran*sish"un; but according to Walker, Smart, and most other authorities, the customary and preferable pronunciation is tran*sizh"un, although this latter mode violates analogy. Other authorities say tran*zish"un. [1913 Webster]
- Transition rocks (Geol.), a term formerly applied to the lowest uncrystalline stratified rocks (graywacke) supposed to contain no fossils, and so called because thought to have been formed when the earth was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'transition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- alchemy,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apostasy,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- becoming,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- change-over,
- changeableness,
- communication,
- conduction,
- constructive change,
- contagion,
- continuity,
- convection,
- conversion,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- delivery,
- deportation,
- deterioration,
- development,
- deviation,
- diapedesis,
- difference,
- diffusion,
- discontinuity,
- dissemination,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- evolution,
- export,
- exportation,
- expulsion,
- extradition,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- growth,
- import,
- importation,
- improvement,
- interchange,
- lapse,
- melioration,
- metamorphosis,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- migration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- mutation,
- mutual transfer,
- naturalization,
- osmosis,
- overthrow,
- passage,
- passing over,
- perfusion,
- progress,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- re-formation,
- realignment,
- reconversion,
- redesign,
- reduction,
- reform,
- reformation,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- resolution,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- shift,
- spread,
- spreading,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- switch-over,
- total change,
- transduction,
- transfer,
- transfer of property,
- transference,
- transformation,
- transfusion,
- transit,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmigration of souls,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- transmittance,
- transmutation,
- transplacement,
- transplantation,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- travel,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turning into,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- volte-face,
- worsening
Words containing 'Transition'
- Transit,
- Transitional,
- Transitive,
- Transitively,
- Transitiveness,
- transitionally,
- transitivity,
- Lower transit,
- Surveyor's transit,
- Transit circle,
- Transit compass,
- Transit duty,
- Transit instrument,
- Transit trade,
- Transition rocks,
- Transition zone,
- Upper transit,
- Vernier transit,
- phase transition,
- public transit,
- rapid transit,
- transit declinometer,
- transit line,
- transit zone,
- transitive verb,
- aba transit number,
- doubly transitive verb,
- mass rapid transit,
- transitive verb form,
- doubly transitive verb form,
- Prime-vertical transit instrument