Hypertext Webster Gateway: "translation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Translation \Trans*la"tion\, n. [F. translation, L. translatio a
transferring, translation, version. See {Translate}, and cf.
{Tralation}.]
1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring;
removal; also, the state of being translated or removed;
as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
2. The act of rendering into another language;
interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is
difficult.
3. That which is obtained by translating something a version;
as, a translation of the Scriptures.
4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a
metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association
of ideas. --A. Tucker.
6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving
body have at any instant the same velocity and direction
of motion; -- opposed to rotation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
translation
n 1: a written communication in a second language having the same
meaning as the written communication in a first language
[syn: {interlingual rendition}, {rendering}, {version}]
2: a uniform movement without rotation
3: the act of transforming; "a photograph is a translation of a
scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: {transformation}]
4: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in
messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein
at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
5: rewording something in less technical terminology
6: the act of uniform movement [syn: {displacement}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.