translation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
ipa: /tɹɑːnz-/
ipa: /tɹɑːns-/
ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: translations
form: translatioun
form: tr.
form: trans.
form: transl.
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conversion of text from one language to another.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
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.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The automatic retransmission of a telegraph message.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
An ascension to Heaven without death.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The act of translating, in its various senses:
The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
glosses: The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
Derived terms: autotranslation
back-translation
bridge translation
computer-aided translation
cotranslation
fanlation
fanslation
Fortran
gyrotranslation
hypertranslation
intertranslation
loan translation
lost in translation
machine translation
mechanotranslation
mistranslation
nick translation
nontranslational
overtranslation
piezotranslation
posttranslation
pretranslation
retranslation
rototranslation
scanlation
scanslation
sight translation
supertranslation
thick translation
transcreation
transflection
translational
translationally
translationary
translation dictionary
translationese
translationless
translation memory
translation rights
translation screw
translation studies
translon
undertranslation
untranslational
videotranslation
wave of translation
Related terms: word: translatability
word: translatable
word: translate
word: translated
word: translative
word: translator
word: translatory
word: untranslatability
word: untranslatableness
word: untranslateableness
word: untranslatable
word: untranslateable
word: untranslatably
word: untranslated
word: interpretation