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/trænzlˈeɪʃən/ /trænslˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Translation n.

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.

The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

(Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. (Obs.)

(Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

(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.

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"Translation" Quotes from Famous Books

... have been carefully made from the originals at Simancas by order of the Belgian Government, under the superintendence of the eminent archivist M. Gachard, who has already published a synopsis or abridgment of a portion of it in a French translation. The translation and abridgment of so large a mass of papers, however, must necessarily occupy many years, and it may be long, therefore, before the whole of the correspondence—and particularly that portion of it relating ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... There can be little doubt, I think, that the allusion of my text is to these all but the last words of the prophet Malachi. For that final chapter of the Old Testament colours the song both of Mary and of Zacharias. And it is to be observed that the Greek translation of the Hebrew uses the same verb, of which the cognate noun is here employed, for the rising of the Sun of Righteousness. The picturesque old English word 'dayspring' means neither more nor less than sunrising. And ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... person of Christian Metz, a man of great personal charm, worldly shrewdness, and spiritual fervor. Allied with him was Barbara Heynemann, a simple maid without education, who learned to read the Scriptures after she was twenty-three years of age. Endowed with the peculiar gift of "translation," she was cherished by the sect as an instrument of ...

— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth

... majority of the population. As regards railroads and telegraphs, the advantages would be the same as if the local times were everywhere identical, because it is easy to remember the multiple of 10 minutes which ought to be added to the time of a given country for translation into the time of another country. The difference of time between Sweden and Denmark would, for instance, be 10 minutes—a circumstance which everybody would soon learn to remember. A traveller leaving Sweden would then know that ...

— International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. • Various

... the daughter of an age that has flirted with half-a-dozen ideals, all equally fascinating, and finally decided in favour of a mature realism. She may have learned that hardest lesson of the schools, the translation of life's drama from fancy into fact; found out that all the time the grey old chorus has been singing, not of love and joy, as she once in her ignorance imagined, but of unspeakable rest on the great consoling platitudes of life, where there is no more revelation because there is ...

— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair

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