transition
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)transitions
- the act of passing from one state or place to the nextSynonyms: passageType of change of stateKinds segue, fossilization
- an event that results in a transformationSynonyms: conversionchangeoverType of transformation, transmutationKinds rectification, glycogenesis, isomerization
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to anotherType of change, alterationKinds leap, ground swell
- a musical passage moving from one key to anotherSynonyms: modulationType of passage, musical passage
- a passage that connects a topic to one that followsType of passageKinds flashback, dissolve, cut, flash-forward, jump
Verb (2)transitions, transitioning
- cause to convert or undergo a transition“the company had to transition the old practices to modern technology”More general convert
- 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”More general switch, shift
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Translations
Noun change from one state to another
- Spanish
- transición
- French
- transition
- German
- Übergang
- Italian
- transizione
- Portuguese
- transição
- Turkish
- geçiş
- Russian
- перехо́д perexód
- Chinese
- 过渡 guòdù
- Japanese
- 遷移 sen'i
- Dutch
- overgang
17 more languages
- Polish
- tranzycja
- Swedish
- övergång
- Greek
- μετάβαση metávasi
- Korean
- 전이 jeoni
- Indonesian
- peralihan
- Hungarian
- átmenet
- Portuguese (PT)
- transição
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 過渡 guòdù
- Catalan
- transició
- Czech
- přechod
- Danish
- overgang
- Esperanto
- transiro
- Finnish
- siirtymä
- Hebrew
- מַעֲבָר ma'vár
- Norwegian
- overgang
- Romanian
- tranziție
- Serbo-Croatian
- tranzicija
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.
There is no death, what seems so is transition.— Henry W. Longfellow
2. Music A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.
3. Rhetoric A passing from one subject to another.
[He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes.— John Milton
4. Biology Change from one form to another.
☞ 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.
Transition rocks Geology, 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54