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(noun)
noun
1. a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
Similar word(s): rendering, version
Definition categories: communication
2. a uniform movement without rotation
Definition categories: event, travel
3. the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
- a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface
Similar word(s): transformation
Definition categories: act
4. (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
Definition categories: link, transformation
5. (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
Definition categories: process
6. rewording something in less technical terminology
Definition categories: communication, paraphrase
7. the act of uniform movement
Similar word(s): displacement