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English noun: translation | |||
| 1. | translation (communication) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | ||
| Synonyms | interlingual rendition, rendering, version | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | written account, written record | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | caption, crib, mistranslation, pony, retroversion, subtitle, supertitle, surtitle, trot | ||
| 2. | translation (event) a uniform movement without rotation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change of location, travel | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | displacement, shift | ||
| 3. | translation (act) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance | ||
| Samples | A photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface. | ||
| Synonyms | transformation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change of integrity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alteration, metamorphosis, permutation, revision, transfiguration, transmogrification | ||
| 4. | translation (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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | transformation | ||
| Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||
| 5. | translation (process) (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | biological process, organic process | ||
| Domain category | genetic science, genetics | ||
| 6. | translation (communication) rewording something in less technical terminology | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | paraphrase, paraphrasis | ||
| 7. | translation (act) the act of uniform movement | ||
| Synonyms | displacement | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | motion, move, movement | ||
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