translation

1. 1.

   a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

   Synonymsinterlingual renditionrenderingversion

   Broaderwritten record

   Narrowermistranslationponyretroversionsubtitlesupertitle
2. 2.

   a uniform movement without rotation

   Broaderchange of location

   Narrowershift
3. 3.

   the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

   “a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface”

   Synonymstransformation

   Broaderchange of integrity

   Narrowerpermutationrevisiontransfigurationtransmogrificationmetamorphosis
4. 4.

   (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

   Broadertransformation

   mathematics

5. 5.

   (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

   Broaderorganic process

   genetics

6. 6.

   rewording something in less technical terminology

   Broaderparaphrase
7. 7.

   the act of uniform movement

   Synonymsdisplacement

   Broadermotion

Other forms of translation

plural

translations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about translation

What does translation mean?

translation means "a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in translation?

translation has 3 syllables: tran-sla-tion. The stress falls on "sla". In IPA it is /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for translation?

Close synonyms include interlingual rendition, rendering, version, transformation, displacement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is translation a common word?

translation is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with translation?

65 words rhyme with translation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.