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Meaning of 'translation'
Meaning of 'translation' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Translation 
[ n.]
- The act of translating, removing, or transferring;
removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the
translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop. [ n.]- The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.
- That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
- A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.
- Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.
- Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.
Meaning of 'translation' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. translation [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
- the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
Example in sentence:
- a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface
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