translation
Americannoun
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the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
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a version of such a rendering.
a new translation of Plato.
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change or conversion to another form, appearance, etc.; transformation.
a swift translation of thought into action.
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the act or process of translating.
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the state of being translated.
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Mechanics. motion in which all particles of a body move with the same velocity along parallel paths.
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Telegraphy. the retransmitting or forwarding of a message, as by relay.
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Mathematics.
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a function obtained from a given function by adding the same constant to each value of the variable of the given function and moving the graph of the function a constant distance to the right or left.
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a transformation in which every point of a geometric figure is moved the same distance in the same direction.
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Genetics. the process by which a messenger RNA molecule specifies the linear sequence of amino acids on a ribosome for protein synthesis.
idioms
noun
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something that is or has been translated, esp a written text
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the act of translating or the state of being translated
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maths a transformation in which the origin of a coordinate system is moved to another position so that each axis retains the same direction or, equivalently, a figure or curve is moved so that it retains the same orientation to the axes
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Biochemistry The process in the ribosomes of a cell by which a strand of messenger RNA directs the assembly of a sequence of amino acids to make a protein.
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Biochemistry Compare transcription
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Physics Motion of a body in which every point of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point of the body.
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Mathematics The changing of the coordinates of points to coordinates that are referred to new axes that are parallel to the old axes.
Related Words
Translation , paraphrase , version refer to a rewording of something. A translation is a rendering of the same ideas in a different language from the original: a translation from Greek into English. A paraphrase is a free rendering of the sense of a passage in other words, usually in the same language: a paraphrase of a poem. A version is a translation, especially of the Bible, or else an account of something illustrating a particular point of view: the Douay Version.
Other Word Forms
- pretranslation noun
- retranslation noun
- translational adjective
- translationally adverb
Etymology
Origin of translation
First recorded in 1300–50; from Latin trānslātiōn- (stem of trānslātiō ) “a transferring,” equivalent to trānslāt(us) ( translate ) + -iōn- -ion; replacing Middle English translacioun, from Anglo-French, from Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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Tyndale’s translation, the first-ever from the original Greek, was smuggled into England in March 1526—five centuries ago this month.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
According to Ali Ansari, a historian of Iran at the University of St Andrews, the Persian translation of Trump’s 1987 book The Art of the Deal has attracted a following inside the Islamic republic.*
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026
On Thursday, wearing green khaki prison jumpsuits, Maduro and his wife sat quietly with several lawyers in-between them as they listened to a translation of the arguments through headphones.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
However “Arirang” is the first BTS album with a fully Korean title that doesn’t have any singular English translation.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
Lucretius’s poem On the Nature of Things was lost during the Middle Ages; it was rediscovered in 1417 and first published in 1473 and there was no complete English translation in print until 1682.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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