Category:Translation

Trans*la"tion, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: a transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a Tralation. [obs.] B. Jonson.

5. (metaph.)

Defn: transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker.

6. (kinematics)

Defn: motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any Instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to Rotation.