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translation trans·la·tion

Spelling: [trans-ley-shuh n, tranz-]

IPA: /trænsˈleɪ ʃən, trænz-/

Translation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 836 anagrams from letters in translation (aailnnorstt).

Definitions for translation

noun

1. the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
2. a version of such a rendering:
3. change or conversion to another form, appearance, etc.; transformation:
4. the act or process of translating.
5. the state of being translated.
6. Mechanics. motion in which all particles of a body move with the same velocity along parallel paths.
7. Telegraphy. the retransmitting or forwarding of a message, as by relay.
8. Mathematics. a function obtained from a given function by adding the same constant to each value of the variable of the given function and moving the graph of the function a constant distance to the right or left. a transformation in which every point of a geometric figure is moved the same distance in the same direction.
9. Genetics. the process by which a messenger RNA molecule specifies the linear sequence of amino acids on a ribosome for protein synthesis.

Origin of translation

1300-50; Latin trānslātiōn- (stem of trānslātiō) a transferring, equivalent to trānslāt(us) (see translate) + -iōn- -ion; replacing Middl

Examples for translation

The text of that edition has been used for the present translation.

Adams answered, "he had never read any translation of the classicks."

The translation agency only advertises for girls with “no complexes”: code for being prepared to bed the client.

There are minor syntactic errors throughout the study, presumably due to translation.

One is, of course, inevitably up against the problem of translation when speaking of names.

The play is simply superb, in spite of the faults of the translation.

The service was in Hebrew: but I had a book with a translation of it.

translation: What plays to the base is not what plays to the middle.

Some examples from both are given in the notes to this translation.

In a vacuum (translation: but for Obama), this could be a killer year for Democrats.