(genetics) Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.

Alternative letter-case form of nontransferable

(typography, attributive) Transfer of premade letters from a sheet, as with Letraset.

The transference of materials, such as chemicals, contaminants, plastics, etc., through different trophic levels of the food web.

(sports)

plural of transfer student

(astronautics) An elliptical orbit used to transfer a spacecraft between two circular orbits of different altitudes in the same plane, with the periapsis of the orbit being tangent to the smaller circular orbit and its apoapsis being tangent to the larger circular orbit.

The movement of (especially new) technology from one field or region to another, especially from a research institution to the marketplace in order to allow commercialization.

(mathematics) a mathematical representation of the relation between the input and output of a linear time-invariant system

(computing) A data transfer rate.