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Definition of Transition

1. Noun. The act of passing from one state or place to the next.

2. Verb. Cause to convert or undergo a transition. "The company had to transition the old practices to modern technology"

3. Noun. An event that results in a transformation.

4. Verb. Make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another). "The adagio transitioned into an allegro"

5. Noun. A change from one place or state or subject or stage to another.

6. Noun. A musical passage moving from one key to another.

7. Noun. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows.

Definition of Transition

1. n. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

Definition of Transition

1. Noun. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another. ¹

2. Noun. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another. ¹

3. Noun. (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes. ¹

4. Noun. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion. ¹

5. Noun. (context: some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense. ¹

6. Noun. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth. ¹

7. Noun. (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping. ¹

8. Noun. (LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive chiefly US) To make a transition. ¹

10. Verb. (LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transition

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transition

1. 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." (Longfellow) 2. A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation. 3. A passing from one subject to another. "[He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes." (Milton) 4. Change from one form to another. This word is sometimes pronounced; but according to Walker, Smart, and most other authorities, the customary and preferable pronunciation is, although this latter mode violates analogy. Other authorities say . Transition rocks, 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. Origin: L. Transitio: cf. F. Transition. See Transient. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transition

transistorising transistorization transistorize transistorized transistorizes transistorizing transistors transit transit declinometer transit instrument

transit lane transit line transit zone transited transiting transition (current term) transition electron transition element transition elements transition function

transition functions transition matrix transition metal transition metals transition mutation transition point transition points transition probability model transition state

Literary usage of Transition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"tions, which they define as E2C, proceed through transition states V, which are like the limiting E2C transition states XIX. E2C reactions are observed with ..."

2. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1908)
"In the case of sulphur, the transition point of rhombic into monoclinic sulphur was ... The transition point, therefore, as determined in open vessels at ..."

3. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"If, however, the aniline and phenol produced by the dissociation of V are distributed unequally between the two liquid layers the transition-point will be ..."

4. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"The inward or ideal transition from Egypt to Greece is as just exhibited. But Egypt became a province of the great Persian kingdom, and the historical ..."

5. Biennial Report by Nebraska Roads and Irrigation Dept (1906)
"The number of chords in transition curve should equal the degree of circular ... Thus a four degree curve will have for a two hundred foot transition four ..."

6. Continuity of Offender Treatment for Substance Use Disorders from by Gary Field (1998)
"The transition Planning Process Successful transition from criminal justice institutions to community treatment is almost always the result of purposeful ..."

7. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"In order that the transition, however, may constitute an inference from cause to effect (or vice versa), one of the two objects thus naturally related, ..."

8. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1907)
"CHAPTER XI EARLY transition ENGLISH THE description which suggests itself for the century from 1150 to 1250, so far as native literature is concerned, ..."

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