transition

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Translations 1.1.2 Usage notes 1.2 Verb 1.3 Related terms

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[edit] Noun

transition (plural transitions)

1. the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another
2. a word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another
3. (music) a brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes
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

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In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next. Contrast with transfer which is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school.

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to transition (third-person singular simple present transitions, present participle transitioning, simple past and past participle transitioned)

1. (intransitive, chiefly US) To make a transition.

[edit] Related terms

• transit
• transitional
• transitionary
• transitionist
• transition element
• transition metal