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Transition

Transition Meaning & Definition
Transition Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Transition?

[n] the act of passing from one state or place to the next
[n] a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
[n] a musical passage moving from one key to another
[n] a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
[n] an event that results in a transformation

Synonyms | Synonyms for Transition: changeover | conversion | modulation | passage

Related Terms | Find terms related to Transition:

See Also | alteration | change | change of state | cut | dissolve | flashback | flash-forward | fossilisation | fossilization | ground swell | isomerisation | isomerization | jump | jump | leap | modification | musical passage | passage | rectification | saltation | shift | transformation | transmutation

Transition In Webster's Dictionary

\Tran*si"tion\, n. [L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See {Transient}.] 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. (Mus.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation. 3. (Rhet.) A passing from one subject to another. [He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes. --Milton. 4. (Biol.) Change from one form to another. Note: This word is sometimes pronounced tran*sish"un; but according to Walker, Smart, and most other authorities, the customary and preferable pronunciation is tran*sizh"un, although this latter mode violates analogy. Other authorities say tran*zish"un. {Transition rocks} (Geol.), 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.

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