transition

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
2. (countable, uncountable) A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
3. (countable, uncountable) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
4. (countable, uncountable) A change of key.
5. (countable, uncountable) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
6. (countable, uncountable) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
7. (countable, uncountable) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
8. (countable, uncountable) 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.
9. (countable, uncountable) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
10. (countable, uncountable) 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.
11. (countable, uncountable) 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.
12. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) Death; passing from life into death.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a transition.
2. (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
3. (intransitive) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

Concepts

transition

passage

transformation

changement

relève

conversion

évolution

Synonymes

change

passage

shift

variation

switch

alteration

mutation

transformation

transfer

transit

crossing

modification

transmutation

turning point

flux

amendment

convert

alternation

displacement

modulation

metamorphosis

changeover

critical point

move

transform

turning

conversion

interchange

progress

vary

going

changing

exchange

evolution

changes

ectopia

difference

movement

devolution

change over

adjourn

defection

cross-over

metamorphose

make

jump

inversion

move over

moving

break

Traductions

transición

Übergang

transizione

transição

transició

μετάβαση

paso

Wandel

passaggio

overgang

geçiş

انتقال

Wechsel

اِنْتِقال

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɹænˈsɪʒən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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