translation

Meanings

Noun

• a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
• a uniform movement without rotation
• the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
  • "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"
• (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same
• (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
• rewording something in less technical terminology
• the act of uniform movement

Synonyms

displacement, interlingual rendition, rendering, transformation, version