'Translation' definitions:
Definition of 'translation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language [syn: translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version]
noun
A uniform movement without rotation
noun
The act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: transformation, translation]
noun
(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
noun
(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
noun
Rewording something in less technical terminology
noun
The act of uniform movement [syn: translation, displacement]
Definition of 'Translation'
From: GCIDE
- Translation \Trans*la"tion\, n. [F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation.]
- 1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. --A. Tucker. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'translation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alteration,
- amplification,
- apotheosis,
- ascension,
- assumption,
- avatar,
- bilingual text,
- carrying,
- catabolism,
- catalysis,
- change,
- clavis,
- communication,
- conduction,
- consubstantiation,
- contagion,
- convection,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- crib,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- delivery,
- deportation,
- diapedesis,
- diffusion,
- dispatch,
- displacement,
- dissemination,
- elucidation,
- explanation,
- export,
- exportation,
- expulsion,
- extradition,
- faithful translation,
- forwarding,
- free translation,
- gathering,
- gloss,
- glossary,
- heterotopia,
- import,
- importation,
- interchange,
- interlinear,
- interlinear translation,
- interpretation,
- key,
- loose translation,
- metabolism,
- metagenesis,
- metamorphism,
- metamorphosis,
- metaphrase,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- migration,
- movement,
- moving,
- mutant,
- mutated form,
- mutation,
- mutual transfer,
- osmosis,
- paraphrase,
- passage,
- passing over,
- perfusion,
- permutation,
- pony,
- reincarnation,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- restatement,
- resurrection,
- rewording,
- rewrite,
- rewriting,
- sending,
- shipment,
- shipping,
- sport,
- spread,
- spreading,
- the Ascension,
- the Assumption,
- transanimation,
- transcription,
- transduction,
- transfer,
- transfer of property,
- transference,
- transferral,
- transfiguration,
- transfigurement,
- transformation,
- transformism,
- transfusion,
- transit,
- transition,
- transliteration,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmigration of souls,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- transmittance,
- transmogrification,
- transmutation,
- transplacement,
- transplantation,
- transport,
- transportation,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- transubstantiation,
- travel,
- trot