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Transition   /trænzˈɪʃən/   Listen
Transition

noun
1.
The act of passing from one state or place to the next.  Synonym: passage.
2.
An event that results in a transformation.  Synonyms: changeover, conversion.
3.
A change from one place or state or subject or stage to another.
4.
A musical passage moving from one key to another.  Synonym: modulation.
5.
A passage that connects a topic to one that follows.
verb
1.
Cause to convert or undergo a transition.
2.
Make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another).  "The adagio transitioned into an allegro"



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"Transition" Quotes from Famous Books



... brought me out of my abstraction, and looking up I found myself entering the deep shadows of the ravine. The day was stifling; and this transition from the pitiless, visible heat of the parched fields to the cool gloom, heavy with pungency of cedars and vocal with twittering of the birds that had been driven to its leafy asylum, was exquisitely refreshing. I looked for my mystery, as usual, but ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce
... criticks never so much as heard of Homer's having written first."—Pope's Preface to Homer. "Condemn the book, for its not being a geography."—O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 317. "There will be in many words a transition from their being the figurative to their being the proper signs of certain ideas."—Campbell's Rhet., p. 322. "The doctrine of the Pope's being the only source of ecclesiastical power."—Religious World, ii, 290. "This ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... capacity of being may nevertheless not actually exist, and a thing may have a capacity of being and really exist. Since this is the case, there must ensue between non-being and real being some such principle as energy, in order to account for the transition or change.[733] Energy has here some analogy to motion, though it must not be confounded with motion. Now you can not predicate either motion or energy of things which are not. The moment energy is added to them they are. This transition from potentiality ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... change marks the transition from the period of Early Childhood to Childhood, but development is continuous and rapid in every direction. The larger social world, entered through school life, and the new intellectual world, revealed through ability to read, widen the child's vision ...
— The Unfolding Life • Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
... spoiled all our calculations. Now that we had found them, a week was as much as we could allow for their hunt. Already frost appeared in the night hours, and made us uncomfortable enough, and we knew that in the prairie region the transition from autumn to winter is ...
— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid


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