transition
IPA: trænzˈɪʃʌn
noun
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (music) A change of key.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- (intransitive, LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
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Examples of "transition" in Sentences
- The transition period was chaotic.
- The transition to the neck is gradual.
- Cronyism also undermined the transition.
- How calamitous might this transition be
- The 20th century was a transitional period.
- In this case, the atom undergoes the transition.
- Excels in transition; is comfortable playing half-court game.
- The transition from the world of the shtetl changed him forever.
- It is the nature of the beast that there is a transitional period.
- He crashed the net on Briere's toss in transition from the left point.
- Change is a transition from the state of potentiality to that of actuality.
- Past leadership transitions in China have also kindled hopes for big change.
- Usually a three in transition is a good shot, but not then, and not from where
- Accessing a specific event's transition has been renamed from next_# {event} _transition to
- The term transition is commonly used to denote a passing from one to another of the main divisions of the discourse.
- Particularly for Fleischmann, the transition is an easy one because he played with Jason Chimera and Eric Fehr a handful of times last season as well.
- Any parish in transition is going to breed a hard-core of disgruntled parishioners who resent anything that smacks of true expressions of the Catholic faith.
- Many doctors and hospitals are awaking to a health system in transition and this transition is being designed and developed by the employers who feel they have not not received value for thier health care dollars.
- Bob Davies, who helped lead a nickname transition as an administrator at Indiana University-Pennsylvania, said officials considered suing the NCAA or living with sanctions rather than surrendering its Indians nickname.
- And a model of the whole time series as a transition from a farming exponential mode to an industry exponential mode suggests that the transition is not over yet - we are slowly approaching a real industry doubling time of about six years, or one hundred and fifty times the farming growth rate.