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translation
A	noun
	1	translation, displacement
			the act of uniform movement
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚change ╚motion; movement; move ╚translation, displacement
	2	transformation, translation
			the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚change ╚change of integrity ╚transformation, translation ╚metamorphosis ╚transmogrification ╚transfiguration ╚revision; alteration ╚permutation
	3	translation
			rewording something in less technical terminology
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚written communication; written language ╚writing; written material; piece of writing ╚editing; redaction ╚rewriting; revising ╚rewording; recasting; rephrasing ╚paraphrase; paraphrasis ╚translation
	4	translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version
			a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚indication; indicant ╚evidence ╚record ╚written record; written account ╚translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version ╚supertitle; surtitle ╚subtitle; caption ╚retroversion ╚pony; trot; crib ╚mistranslation
	5	translation
			a uniform movement without rotation
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚movement; motion ╚change of location; travel ╚translation ╚shift; displacement
	6	translation
			(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
		Category Tree: phenomenon ╚process ╚organic process; biological process ╚translation
	7	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
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚mathematical relation ╚function; mathematical function ╚transformation ╚translation

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