Translation

Noun

 * 1)  The act of converting or translating (text from one language to another).
 * 2)  The end result of translating text.
 * 3)  Translation of forces in a gearbox.
 * 4)  Motion of a body on a linear path, without deformation or rotation, i.e. such that every part of the body moves at the same speed and in the same direction; also (in physics), the linear motion of a body considered independently of its rotation.
 * 5)  A process occurring in the ribosome, in which a strand of messenger RNA (mRNA) guides assembly of a sequence of amino acids to make a protein.

Derived terms

 * fan translation
 * machine translation
 * translationless

Related terms

 * translate
 * translational
 * translative
 * translator
 * translatory
 * rendition

Thesaurus
alteration, amplification, apotheosis, ascension, assumption, avatar, bilingual text, carrying, catabolism, catalysis, change, clavis, communication, conduction, consubstantiation, contagion, convection, conversion, conveyance, crib, decipherment, decoding, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dispatch, displacement, dissemination, elucidation, explanation, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, faithful translation, forwarding, free translation, gathering, gloss, glossary, heterotopia, import, importation, interchange, interlinear, interlinear translation, interpretation, key, loose translation, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metaphrase, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, movement, moving, mutant, mutated form, mutation, mutual transfer, osmosis, paraphrase, passage, passing over, perfusion, permutation, pony, reincarnation, rendering, rendition, restatement, resurrection, rewording, rewrite, rewriting, sending, shipment, shipping, sport, spread, spreading, the Ascension, the Assumption, transanimation, transcription, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transferral, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, transfusion, transit, transition, transliteration, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transmogrification, transmutation, transplacement, transplantation, transport, transportation, transposal, transposition, transubstantiation, travel, trot

Etymology
From translatio:, from trans-:, + latio:, from latus:, perfect passive participle of irregular verb fero: (compare transfer), + noun of action suffix -io:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bengali:, তর্জমা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: traducció
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: překládání
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: penerjemahan
 * Interlingua: traduction
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ការបកប្រែ, ការប្រែភាសា
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: tulkojums
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: nunfanva
 * Luxembourgish: Iwwersetzung
 * Macedonian:, преведување


 * Malayalam: വിവര്‍ത്തനം (vivarthanam), തര്‍ജ്ജമ (tharjjama)
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: omsetjing
 * Pennsylvania German:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਉਲਥਾ, ਅਨੁਵਾਦ , ਤਰਜਮਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: превод,  пријевод
 * Roman: prevod,  prijevod
 * Sinhalese: පරිවර්තනය
 * Slovak: preklad, prekladanie
 * Slovene: prevajanje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: tafsiri
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: тарҷума
 * Tamil: மொழிபெயர்ப்பு
 * Telugu: (anuvaadamu)
 * Thai:, การแปล
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: переклад
 * Urdu:, انواد
 * Vietnamese: sự thông dịch
 * Volapük: tradut, tradutam
 * West Frisian:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: traducció
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 訳文,
 * Khmer: ការបកប្រែ
 * Korean:, 번역문
 * Kurdish:


 * Latvian: tulkojums
 * Lojban:
 * Luxembourgish: Iwwersetzung
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: omsetjing
 * Pennsylvania German:
 * Polish:, przekład
 * Portuguese:, obra traduzida
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: превод,  пријевод
 * Roman: prevod,  prijevod
 * Sinhalese: පරිවර්තනය
 * Slovak: preklad
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, tolkning
 * Telugu: అనువాదము (anuvaadamu)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Vietnamese: bản dịch
 * Volapük: tradutod
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: välitys, välityssuhde
 * French:
 * German:, Untersetzung
 * Hungarian: vált, felvált,  levált
 * Japanese: 伝達


 * Luxembourgish: Transmissioun
 * Macedonian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: preradenie
 * Swahili:


 * Czech: translace
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: eltolás
 * Icelandic: hliðrun
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 平行移動
 * Luxembourgish: Translatioun


 * Polish: przesunięcie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: трансляция
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: транслација
 * Roman: translacija
 * Slovak: posunutie, translácia
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, (maths, physics)


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: πρωτεϊνογένηση
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: транслација
 * Roman: translacija


 * Swedish: translation


 * : troidigezh, -ioù (1,2)
 * : превеждане (1), превод  (2), предаване  (3)
 * : ñembohasa ambue ñe'ẽme
 * : traduction
 * : traductio (Classical, Vulgar, and New Latin), translatio
 * : (sự) dịch (1); (bản, bài) dịch (2)
 * : cyfieithiad

Derived terms

 * translation studies

Noun

 * 1)  translation

Etymology
From translatio.

Noun

 * 1) translation in mathematics and physics