translation
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
translation/transˈleɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of translating.
- 2 a text or word that is translated.
- 3 formal or technical the process of moving something from one place to another.
■ Physics & Mathematics movement of a body such that every point moves in the same direction and over the same distance, without any rotation, reflection, or change in size.
– derivatives
translational adjective,
translationally adverb.
translational adjective,
translationally adverb.
'translation' also found in these Oxford entries:
alpenglow
- artificial intelligence
- atrabilious
- Authorized Version
- backveld
- bain-marie
- basset horn
- black bile
- caecum
- calque
- clapboard
- cloud cuckoo land
- commonplace
- crib
- curtain
- deus ex machina
- Dives
- Dogrib
- dura mater
- final solution
- Finlandization
- florilegium
- Fortran
- free
- Friday
- gloss
- gobbet
- henbit
- herb Christopher
- hypermarket
- interlingua
- Kyrie
- language engineering
- literal
- loan translation
- long pig
- machine translation
- materia medica
- meerschaum
- metaphrase
- Monday
- MT
- noble rot
- nutmeg
- overman
- overplus
- peregrine
- Porte
- Prince Charming
- rendering
