plural of transitional deacon

plural of transitional provision

(law) A statutory provision that regulates a process that starts before an amendment or enactment of the statute comes into force, and ends after the amendment or enactment of the statute has come into force.

plural of transitional object

(psychology) An object, such as a security blanket or stuffed toy, used by a young child to self-soothe and cope with separation from a parent or other attachment figure.

plural of transition function

plural of mass transit

(physics) The stage in the flow or a fluid during which it changes from laminar to turbulent / (geology) The region between the upper and lower mantle characterized by a rapid increase in density

(of a verb in an Algonquian language) Belonging to the class of transitive verbs that take animate direct objects.

(mathematics, stochastic processes) A square matrix whose rows consist of nonnegative real numbers, with each row summing to 1. Used to describe the transitions of a Markov chain; its element in the ith row and jth column describes the probability of moving from state i to state j in one time step.