Trans-lā'tion1, n.
n. [Fr. translation, Sp. translation, traslacion, It. translazione, traslazione, tralazione, Pr. & Lat. translatio.]
- The act of translating, removing, transferring; removal; as, the translation of a bishop, and the like.
- The state of being translated or removed.
- The act of translating, or rendering into another language; interpretation.
- That which is translated; a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures, or of the poems of Homer.
- A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase; a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs. or rare.]
- (Mech.) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have the same velocity or move in parallel straight lines; — opposed to rotation.
- (Med.) A change in the seat of a disease; metastasis. Dunglison.