English Dictionary

transition

/tɹænˈsɪʒən/

noun

The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another. / A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another. / (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

The transition from childhood to adulthood can be challenging.

意味（1）

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

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

意味（2）

A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.

意味（3）

(music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

意味（4）

(music) A change of key.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.

意味（7）

(medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.

意味（8）

(education) 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.

意味（9）

(skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.

意味（10）

(LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.

The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot.

意味（11）

(aviation) 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.

意味（12）

(euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.

As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.