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Transitional vs Successional - What's the difference?

transitional | successional |

As adjectives the difference between transitional and successional

is that transitional is of, or relating to a transition while successional is of, related to or caused by succession.

transitional

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of, or relating to a transition
  • temporary; pending the implementation of something new
    • XHTML 1.0 Transitional

    Synonyms

    * (temporary) provisional, provisory

    Derived terms

    * transitionally

    Related terms

    * transient * transit * transition * transitive * transitory

    successional

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, related to or caused by succession
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=April 15, author=James Krohe Jr., title=Where Has All the Flora Gone?, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Surviving plant communities can be compared to their ancestors, and the differences between them reveal the changes wrought by climate, by pollution, by natural successional processes. }}

    Derived terms

    * successionally