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Definition of Transitional
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characterized by transition. "Adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood"
Definition of Transitional
1. a. Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
Definition of Transitional
1. Adjective. of, or relating to a transition ¹
2. Adjective. temporary; pending the implementation of something new ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transitional
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Transitional
1. Relating to or marked by a transition; transitory. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transitional
Literary usage of Transitional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"Transitional TYPES. In the list of types given above, as well as in the descriptions
which follow, there will be noticed a considerable number of types ..."
2. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"Difficulties of the theory of descent with modification—Absence or rarity of
transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life— Diversified ..."
3. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (1878)
"Difficulties of ihe theory of descent with modification — Absence or rarity of
transitional varieties — Transitions in habits of life — Diversified habits ..."
4. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"... transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life—Diversified habits in
the same species—Species with habits widely different from those of their ..."
5. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"This province had its share of the Cistercian transitional monasteries, especially
those of Poblet and Santa Creus, and also of the transitional cathedrals, ..."
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