translation

Definitions

General English

• noun writing or speech which has been translated

General Science

• noun the movement of a body in a straight line without rotation
• noun the conversion of data from one form into another

Aviation

• noun the movement of an object in a straight line in which every part of the object follows a parallel course and no rotation takes place

Electronics

• The process of converting one language into another.
• In computers, the process of converting from one format, such as that data or a file, into another.
• The process of changing from one format, function, system, or level, to another.
• In computer graphics, the process of changing the position of an image or object on the screen without rotating said image or object.

Media Studies

• noun in the theories of structuralism and discourse, the process of transferring a message from one semiotic system (language) to another

Medical

• noun the act of putting something written or spoken in one language into words of a different language
• noun the process by which information in messenger RNA controls the sequence of amino acids assembled by a ribosome during protein synthesis

Publishing

• noun the act of translating, or a book or other text which has been translated

Nearby Definitions of “translation”

• Transition Matrix
• transition region
• transition temperature
• transitivity
• translate
• translation
• translator
• translocation
• translog function
• translucent
• transmission

Contexts for “translation”

12 definitions in context
• General English
• General Science
• Aviation
• Electronics
• Media Studies
• Medical
• Publishing