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/trænzlˈeɪʃən/ /trænslˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Translation n.

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

(Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. (Obs.)

(Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

(Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; opposed to rotation.

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... course, the text reads like a translation from some stirring ballad, and we feel that it gives but a faint and discordant echo of the music welling in Toru's brain. For it must frankly be confessed that in the brief May-day of her existence she had not time ...

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— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

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