Translate translation | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of translation
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[mass noun] 1the process of translating words or text from one language into another:the translation of the Bible into English [count noun] a written or spoken rendering of the meaning of a word or text in another language:a Spanish translation of Calvin’s great work
2the conversion of something from one form or medium into another:the translation of research findings into clinical practice Biology the process by which a sequence of nucleotide triplets in a messenger RNA molecule gives rise to a specific sequence of amino acids during synthesis of a polypeptide or protein.
3 formal or
technical the process of moving something from one place to another:the translation of the relics of St Thomas of Canterbury Mathematics movement of a body from one point of space to another such that every point of the body moves in the same direction and over the same distance, without any rotation, reflection, or change in size.
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