 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
translation
noun
1: a written communication in a second language having the same
meaning as the written communication in a first language
[syn: {interlingual rendition}, {rendering}, {version}]
2: a uniform movement without rotation
3: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a
photograph is a translation of a scene onto a
two-dimensional surface" [syn: {transformation}]
4: (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the
coordinate system is moved to another position but the
direction of each axis remains the same
5: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in
messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein
at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
6: rewording something in less technical terminology
7: the act of uniform movement [syn: {displacement}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Translation \Trans*la"tion\, noun [F. translation, L. translatio a
transferring, translation, version. See {Translate}, and cf.
{Tralation}.]
1. 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.
2. The act of rendering into another language;
interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is
difficult.
3. That which is obtained by translating something a version;
as, a translation of the Scriptures.
4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a
metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association
of ideas. --A. Tucker.
6. (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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "translation":
alteration, amplification, apotheosis, ascension, assumption,
avatar, bilingual text, carrying, catabolism, catalysis, change,
clavis, communication, conduction, consubstantiation, contagion,
convection, conversion, conveyance, crib, decipherment, decoding,
delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dispatch,
displacement, dissemination, elucidation, explanation, export,
exportation, expulsion, extradition, faithful translation,
forwarding, free translation, gathering, gloss, glossary,
heterotopia, import, importation, interchange, interlinear,
interlinear translation, interpretation, key, loose translation,
metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metaphrase,
metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, movement,
moving, mutant, mutated form, mutation, mutual transfer, osmosis,
paraphrase, passage, passing over, perfusion, permutation, pony,
reincarnation, rendering, rendition, restatement, resurrection,
rewording, rewrite, rewriting, sending, shipment, shipping, sport,
spread, spreading, the Ascension, the Assumption, transanimation,
transcription, transduction, transfer, transfer of property,
transference, transferral, transfiguration, transfigurement,
transformation, transformism, transfusion, transit, transition,
transliteration, translocation, transmigration,
transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance,
transmogrification, transmutation, transplacement, transplantation,
transport, transportation, transposal, transposition,
transubstantiation, travel, trot
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