noun text which has been translated ○ I read Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ in translation. ○ She passed the translation of the letter to the accounts department.
trans•la´tion
n. [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.
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.
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