transition

IPA: trænzˈɪʃʌn

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.

(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.

Examples of "transition" in Sentences

Excels in transition; is comfortable playing half-court game.
He crashed the net on Briere's toss in transition from the left point.
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.