Look up: transition

1. transition
   [Noun] The act of changing from one state to another.
   Example: It was hoped there would be a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
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2. transition
   [n] - a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another 2. [n] - a musical passage moving from one key to another 3. [n] - a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
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3. Transition
   Describes a period of change that a child or young person may experience in education, such as starting nursery, primary or secondary education and changing or leaving school. There are also transitions which may not be planned, such as an exclusion from education and school closures. Education auth...
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4. transition
   a transition is a sequence of actions which occurs when a process changes from one state to another in response to an input Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the change from laminar to turbulent flow occurring in some limited region of the field of flow <...
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5. transition
   1. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. 'There is no death, what seems so is transition.' (Longfellow) ... 2. A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation. ... 3. A passing from one subject to another. '[He] wit...
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6. transition
   noun a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
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7. transition
   noun the act of passing from one state or place to the next
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8. Transition
   • (n.) Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. • (n.) A passing from one subject to another. • (n.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation. • (n.) Change from one form to another.
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9. Transition
   (from the article `African literature`) In East Africa in the 1960s, written literature was only just coming to birth; and the literary review Transition (Kampala, Uganda, 1961–68) played ...
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10. transition
    (from the article `Jolas, Eugene and Maria`) American founders, with Elliot Paul, of the revolutionary literary quarterly transition.
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11. transition
    alteration of a physical system from one state, or condition, to another. In atomic and particle physics, transitions are often described as being ... [16 related articles]
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12. Transition
    The process of converting from a centrally planned, non-market economy to a market economy.
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13. Transition
    [Fly to the Sky album] Transition is a 2006 studio album by Fly to the Sky. This is the first studio album under PFull Entertainment, Fly to the Sky`s second record label. ==Overview== The title of the album was chosen by Brian Joo who felt that the duo "needed to change from teen idols to m...
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14. Transition
    [The West Wing] "Transition" is episode 151 of The West Wing. ==Plot== Josh`s astoundingly hectic post-election schedule (fuelled by large amounts of Red Bull) begins to catch up to him also with lack of sleep, and friends and co-workers worry that if he doesn`t take some time off very soon,...
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15. Transition
    [grappling] A transition in grappling is a move from one grappling hold or grappling position to another. The process is called transitioning and is one of the most important aspects of ground grappling, as it allows the combatant performing the transition to advance in positioning, for inst...
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16. Transition
    [genetics] In genetics, a transition is a point mutation that changes a purine nucleotide to another purine (A ↔ G) or a pyrimidine nucleotide to another pyrimidine (C ↔ T). Approximately two out of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are transitions. Transitions can be caused b...
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17. Transition
    [John Coltrane album] Transition is an album of music by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The album was recorded on June 10 and June 16, 1965, and released posthumously. As its title indicates, Transition was a bridge between classic quartet recordings like A Love Supreme and the more experim...
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18. Transition
    [literary journal] transition was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists. It was founded in 1927 by poet Eugene Jolas and his wife Maria McDonald and published in Paris. They were later assisted by editors Elliot Paul (April 1927- M...
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19. Transition
    In architecture, transition is a term employed in reference to medieval architecture, while it is in progress of changing from one style to another. There are three periods of transition: from the Romanesque, or Norman, style to the Early English; from the Early English to the Decorated; and from th...
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20. transition
    the shift from offense to defense.
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21. Transition
    The point in a synchrotron machine's cycle at which all particles, regardless of their slight differences in momentum, take exactly the same amount of time to circle the machine. At this point the phase of the RF voltage with respect to the synchronous particle must be changed for the beam to remain...
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22. transition
    element of a function chart allowing the transit from a preceding step to the following step with a transition condition associated with the transition NOTE 1 - A transition is enabled if all the immediately preceding steps, connected to this transition by directed links, are active. NOTE 2 - A tran...
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23. transition
    a transient phenomenon separating two successive signal elements having different significant conditions in a discretely-timed signal
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24. transition
    passage from one combination to another without total interruption of the motor current
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25. Transition
    Commonly used to refer to the change from secondary school to postsecondary programs, work, and independent living typical of young adults. Also used to describe other periods of major change such as from early childhood to school or from more specialized to mainstreamed settings
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