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Word: transition (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • a word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another
  • genetics a point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion
  • medicine the onset of the final stage of childbirth
  • music a brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes
  • (''some sports'') a change from defense to attack, or attack to defense
  • the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another

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Verb:

  • intransitive|chiefly|US To make a transition.

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