Transition

What do we mean by transition?

Change from one form, state, style, or place to another. noun

Change from one subject to another in discourse. noun

A word, phrase, sentence, or series of sentences connecting one part of a discourse to another. noun

Change from one key or tonality to another. noun

A passage connecting two themes or sections, usually changing to a new key or tonality. noun

A point mutation in which a pyrimidine is replaced by another pyrimidine, or a purine is replaced by another purine. noun

The process of changing from defense to offense or offense to defense without a stoppage in play, as in basketball or hockey. noun

A period during childbirth that precedes the expulsive phase of labor, characterized by strong uterine contractions and nearly complete cervical dilation. noun

To make a transition. intransitive verb

To change from defense to offense or offense to defense without a stoppage in play. intransitive verb

Passage from one place, state, or act to another; change: as, a sudden transition from anger to mirth; a state of transition. noun

In rhetoric, a passing from one subject to another. noun

In music, same (usually) as modulation. noun

In geology, the English form of the name (used attributively or as an adjective) given by Werner to certain strata which he investigated in northern Germany, and found to have, to a certain extent, the mineral character of the socalled primitive rocks, while also exhibiting indications of a mechanical origin, and even containing occasional fossils, thus indicating a transition or passage from primary to secondary. noun

In art hist., an epoch or stage of change from one style or state of development in art to the next succeeding; especially, in Greek art, the stage of change from the archaic to the bloom of art, and in medieval art, that from the round-arched or Romanesque to the Pointed style. noun

Passage from one place or state to another; charge. noun

A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation. noun

A passing from one subject to another. noun

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

A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.

A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

A change of key.

A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.

A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.

The onset of the final stage of childbirth.

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.

A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to transition:
transition, tradition, transaction, translation, transitive, transection, transitions, transiting, transfixion, tranation, transexion, transunion, transitiv, transitman.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word transition:
uhf, metals, analog, adulthood, democracy, temperature, digital, electron, metal, probability, zone, phase, mandate, matrix, signal, economy, quantum, reaction, liquid.

Words that rhyme with transition:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe transition:
smooth, gradual, demographic, democratic, rapid, easy, abrupt, sudden, successful, economic, political, peaceful, difficult, natural, order, major, electronic, sharp, state, continuous, direct, structural, cultural, orderly, slow, quick, optical, critical, induced, magnetic, post, liquid, insulator, smoother, menopausal, developmental, painful, immediate, swift, necessary, brittle, seamless, conformational, racial, ductile, isomeric, socialist, pre, corresponding, atomic, epidemiological, coil, dramatic, work, crucial, turbulent, evolutionary, solid, radiative, violent, spontaneous, revolutionary, allowed, easier.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective transition:
metal, state, norman, treatment, period, temperature, periods, time.

Words that sound like transition:
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