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Definition of translation (noun)
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, version
- a uniform movement without rotation
- the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
- "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"
- synonyms: transformation
- (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same
- (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
- rewording something in less technical terminology
- the act of uniform movement
- synonyms: displacement
Source: Princeton University Wordnet