translation

Words with a similar base: translation

'translation'

[translation.n.01] as in: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

'translation'

[translation.n.02] as in: a uniform movement without rotation

'translation'

[transformation.n.05] as in: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

Examples:
a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface

'translation'

[translation.n.04] as in: (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

'translation'

[translation.n.05] as in: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

'translation'

[translation.n.06] as in: rewording something in less technical terminology

'translation'

[translation.n.07] as in: the act of uniform movement

Origins

					translation (English)
└── translatio (Latin)
    ├── trans- (Latin)
    └── transfero (Latin)

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