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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of uniform movement
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Derivation:
translate (subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of changing in form or shape or appearance
Example:
a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface
Synonyms:
transformation; translation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):
change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "translation"):
permutation (complete change in character or condition)
alteration; revision (the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification))
transfiguration (the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify)
transmogrification (the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one))
metamorphosis (a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft)
Derivation:
translate (change from one form or medium into another)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Rewording something in less technical terminology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):
paraphrase; paraphrasis (rewording for the purpose of clarification)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
Synonyms:
interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):
written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "translation"):
mistranslation (an incorrect translation)
crib; pony; trot (a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly))
retroversion (translation back into the original language)
caption; subtitle (translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)
supertitle; surtitle (translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage)
Derivation:
translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)
translate (be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A uniform movement without rotation
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):
change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "translation"):
displacement; shift (an event in which something is displaced without rotation)
Derivation:
translate (change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Derivation:
translate (determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA)
Sense 7
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):
transformation ((mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Context examples:
Proteins are made through a process called translation.
(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)
This allele, which encodes aminoacyl tRNA synthase complex-interacting multifunctional protein 2, is involved in both the modulation of translation and the regulation of ubiquitination.
(AIMP2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in translation.
(DENR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes RNA-binding protein Musashi homolog 2 group, plays a role in the regulation of translation.
(MSI2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This activates interferon-mediated signal transduction pathways and induces the transcription and translation of genes with interferon-specific response elements (ISREs); the protein products mediate antiviral, antiproliferative, anticancer, and immune-modulating effects.
(PEG-Proline-Interferon Alfa-2b, NCI Thesaurus)
However, their genetic transcription and translation do not show the typical bacterial features, but are extremely similar to those of eukaryotes.
(Archaea, NCI Thesaurus)
As I exchanged a translation for an exercise, I happened to look his way: there I found myself under the influence of the ever-watchful blue eye.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My subject is Greek, and the first of the papers consists of a large passage of Greek translation which the candidate has not seen.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This gene is involved in mitochondrial RNA translation.
(MRPL45 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
C-myb antisense oligonucleotide G4460 binds to codon sequences 2 to 9 of c-myb mRNA, inhibiting translation of the transcript.
(C-myb Antisense Oligonucleotide G4460, NCI Thesaurus)
