Meaning

12 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

    Übergang

    перехо́дperexód, превраще́ниеprevraščénije

    перехі́дperexíd, перетво́ренняperetvórennja

    a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another

  2. (countable, uncountable)A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.

    Holonym: metadiscourse

  3. (countable, uncountable)A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A change of key.

    Transition

    перехо́дperexód

    a musical passage moving from one key to another

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

    транзицияtranzicija

  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.

Examples

105 sentences
  1. The educational system is in transition.

    ruОбразовательная система в переходном периоде.

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  2. The transition from farm life to city life is often difficult.

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  3. How are you working through your transition?

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  4. It's time to transition to a gift economy.

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  5. My transition from male to female is going well.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
process of change from one form, state, style or place to another:
Русский
By meaning 2
process of change from one form, state, style or place to another:
point mutation:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
process of change from one form, state, style or place to another:
gender-related life change:

Origin

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

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

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