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.
- usage: "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
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