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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Translation \Trans*la"tion\, n. [F. translation, L. translatio a
transferring, translation, version. See {Translate}, and cf
{Tralation}.]
1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring;
removal; also the state of being translated or removed;
as the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
2. The act of rendering into another language;
interpretation; as the translation of idioms is
difficult.
3. That which is obtained by translating something a version;
as a translation of the Scriptures.
4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a
metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] --B. Jonson
5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association
of ideas. --A. Tucker.
6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving
body have at any instant the same velocity and direction
of motion; -- opposed to rotation.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
translation
n 1: a written communication in a second language having the same
meaning as the written communication in a first language
[syn: {interlingual rendition}, {rendering}, {version}]
2: a uniform movement without rotation
3: the act of transforming; "a photograph is a translation of a
scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: {transformation}]
4: rewording something in less technical terminology
5: the act of uniform movement [syn: {displacement}]
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