Word: transition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion. Pronunciation: /tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/, /tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/, /-sɪ-/, /-ʒən/ 1. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place. Example: In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived. 2. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Holonym: metadiscourse 3. A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A change of key. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The onset of the final stage of childbirth. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A change between forward and backward motion without stopping. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences. Example: The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot. 11. A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Death; passing from life into death. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition. Example: This was my first Christmas without Gemmia and the one-year anniversary of her transition. […] We had a lovely time, but it was very clear that we would rather have been home doing what we would have done had Gemmia been alive.