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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transition \Tran*si"tion\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
transition
noun
1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: {passage}]
2: an event that results in a transformation [syn: {conversion}, {changeover}]
3: a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
4: a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: {modulation}]
5: a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "transition": about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alchemy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assimilation, assumption, becoming, betterment, break, change, change of heart, change-over, changeableness, communication, conduction, constructive change, contagion, continuity, convection, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, delivery, deportation, deterioration, development, deviation, diapedesis, difference, diffusion, discontinuity, dissemination, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, evolution, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, growth, import, importation, improvement, interchange, lapse, melioration, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mitigation, modification, modulation, mutation, mutual transfer, naturalization, osmosis, overthrow, passage, passing over, perfusion, progress, qualification, radical change, re-creation, re-formation, realignment, reconversion, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, shift, spread, spreading, sudden change, switch, switch-over, total change, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transformation, transfusion, transit, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transmutation, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, turn, turnabout, turning into, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, volte-face, worsening
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