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transition.

The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/UK/tɹɑːnˈzɪʃ.ən/UK/-sɪʃ-/UK/-ʒən/UK
  1. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.

    countable · uncountable
  3. A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

    countable · uncountable
  4. A change of key.

    countable · uncountable
  5. A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.

    countable · uncountable
  6. A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.

    countable · uncountable
  7. The onset of the final stage of childbirth.

    countable · uncountable
  8. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  9. A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.

    countable · uncountable
  10. The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.

    countable · uncountable
  11. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  12. Death; passing from life into death.

    countable · euphemistic · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.

verb/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/UK/tɹɑːnˈzɪʃ.ən/UK/-sɪʃ-/UK/-ʒən/UK
  1. To make a transition.

    intransitive
  2. To bring through a transition; to change.

    transitive
    The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
  3. To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.

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