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transition | transitive |

As a noun transition

is the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

As a verb transition

is to make a transition.

As an adjective transitive is

making a transit or passage.

transition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=So, depending on how he chooses to govern over the next four years, Mr. Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next. His re-election opens the door further for the post-’60s generation, even if it does not quite clear the room.}}
  • A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
  • (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
  • (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
  • (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
  • (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
  • (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
  • (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
  • (LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.

    • Usage notes

    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. In the United States education system the, noun is used to define a move from a one phase of an to another specifically regarding the child's or adult's progress from more or less special educational support to greater independent living.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a .
  • To bring through a ; to change.
    • The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
  • (LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
  • * 2006 , Taylor J. Holder, All Points in Between: Shifting on the Scale of Sex and Gender (ISBN 0595399274):
    • Eric told me that after he transitioned , he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.
  • * 2009 , Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (ISBN 0786747919):
    • And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition . First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psychotherapy
  • * 2009 , Mara Drummond, Transitions - A Guide To Transitioning For Transsexuals And Their Families , page 71:
    • If the transitioning' person leaves the family home, there will be moving costs, and costs associated with the acquisition of another home or the renting of an apartment. If the non-' transitioning spouse leaves the family home,
  • * 2012 , Kevin Alderson, Counseling LGBTI Clients (ISBN 1412987180), page 195:
    • After he transitioned , he changed jobs so he could go stealth, hoping that no one would discover he was once a woman.

    Related terms

    * transit * transitional * transitionary * transitionist * transition element * transition metal ----

    transitive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Making a (l) or passage.
  • * (rfdate) , The Poet :
    • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive , and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
  • Affected by (l) of signification.
  • *
    • By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
  • (grammar, of a verb) Taking an (l) or objects.
    • The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
  • * (rfdate) , Orthodoxy :
    • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
  • (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x'' is related to ''y'' and ''y'' is related to ''z'', then ''x'' is necessarily related to ''z .
    • "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

    • Antonyms

    * (l) * (l), (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    See also

    * (l) * (l)

    References

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