[syn: translation, displacement]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. The act of rendering into another language;
interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is
difficult.
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3. That which is obtained by translating something a version;
as, a translation of the Scriptures.
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4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a
metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association
of ideas. --A. Tucker.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
translation
n 1: 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]
2: a uniform movement without rotation
3: 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]
4: (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
5: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in
messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at
a ribosome in the cytoplasm
6: rewording something in less technical terminology
7: the act of uniform movement [syn: translation,
displacement]