Transition

Quick meaning: Transition is a noun meaning The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

Meaning

The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

More Meanings

1. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
2. (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
3. (music) A change of key.
4. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
5. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
6. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
7. (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.

Example Sentences

Holonym: metadiscourse

The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.

The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot.

Word Forms

• transitions
• transitioning
• transitioned

Synonyms for transition

Depending on context, synonyms include conversion, modulation, changeover, passage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include changeover, conversion, modulation, passage, segue, switchover.

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