Look up: transition

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   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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   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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   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 authorities must help children and young people with a ...
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   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 Category: The cosmos • the passage from one combination to another without total interrup...
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   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] with transition sweet, new speech resumes.' (Milton) ...
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   transition
   noun a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
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   transition
   noun the act of passing from one state or place to the next
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   Transition
   `Transition` or `transitional` may refer to: *Transition (genetics) *Transitional fossil *Transition (grappling) *`transition` (literary journal) *`Transition` (Fly to the Sky album) *`Transition Magazine` *The transition (Axis of Time) *Transition metal *Transition state *Transition function *Transition flying car *Transition Program *Gender transition *Transition economy *Transition (1957 Lassie TV series episode)‎ `Transition` may also be ...
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   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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    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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    transition
    (from the article `Jolas, Eugene and Maria`) American founders, with Elliot Paul, of the revolutionary literary quarterly transition.
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    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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    Transition
    The process of converting from a centrally planned, non-market economy to a market economy.
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    transition
    the shift from offense to defense.
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    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 stable. The energy at which this occurs is determined by the machine's lattice.
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    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 transition is cleared if it is enabled, and if its ass...
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    transition
    a transient phenomenon separating two successive signal elements having different significant conditions in a discretely-timed signal
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    passage from one combination to another without total interruption of the motor current
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    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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    The last part of the first phase of labor that takes place prior to the pushing stage. This stage is often the shortest phase of labor, but one of the hardest. During the transition stage, contractions become extremely strong and the duration and frequency is less predictable, often giving the laboring woman very little rest in between. It is com...
    Found on http://www.pregnology.com/AZ/T/3