TRANSFER OF TRAINING

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does transfer of training mean? 

• TRANSFER OF TRAINING (noun)
  The noun TRANSFER OF TRAINING has 1 sense:

1. application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

  Familiarity information: TRANSFER OF TRAINING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSFER OF TRAINING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

carry-over; transfer; transfer of training

Hypernyms ("transfer of training" is a kind of...):

acquisition; learning (the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transfer of training"):

generalisation; generalization; stimulus generalisation; stimulus generalization ((psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus)