translation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
    rendering; interlingual rendition; version.
  2. noun a uniform movement without rotation
  3. noun the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
    transformation.
    • a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface
  4. 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
  5. noun (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
  6. noun rewording something in less technical terminology
  7. noun the act of uniform movement
    displacement.

WordNet

Trans*la"tion noun
Etymology
F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation.
Definitions
  1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
  2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.
  3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
  4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. Obs. B. Jonson.
  5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker.
  6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.

Webster 1913