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translation

/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/noun3 syllables

Translation means: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language.

Synonyms for translation5

noun, as in a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

interlingual rendition, rendering, version

noun, as in the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

transformation

noun, as in the act of uniform movement

displacement

What does translation mean?7

noun

1

a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

2

the act of changing in form or shape or appearance“a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface”

3

the act of uniform movement

4

a uniform movement without rotation

5

(mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same

6

(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

7

rewording something in less technical terminology

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with translation?60

two syllables

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All 60 rhymes for translation, grouped by syllable

Translation in a sentence

  • I'm afraid that in my translation, part of the original meaning has been lost.gordafarin
  • That isn't a literal translation, it's just plain wrong.Jesse
  • Any translation, however good, will clearly fall short of the original.Dejo
  • There were puns in the holy writings, and they got lost in translation.nonong
  • Machine translation, while growing in accuracy, is a poor way of creating translated documents.swolesuki
  • For some expressions, it's not so easy to find an appropriate translation.AlanF_US
  • All in all, this translation matches the original closely.Ooneykcall
  • In this case, translation is, in effect, impossible.unknown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

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