translation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

   a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface

2. 2
   noun

   the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

   The faulty translation of the RNA led to a mis-folded protein.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of translating, in its various senses:

   This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.

4. 4
   noun

   the act of uniform movement

5. 5
   noun

   rewording something in less technical terminology

6. 6
   noun

   a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

7. 7
   noun

   a uniform movement without rotation

8. 8
   noun

   (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

Etymology

From Middle English translacioun (“transfer, translation”), from Anglo-Norman translacioun, from Latin trānslātiō, from trānslāt-, the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, transport, transform, translate”). Equivalent to translate + -ion. Displaced native Old English wending.