TRANSLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does translation mean? 

• TRANSLATION (noun)
  The noun TRANSLATION has 7 senses:

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

2. a uniform movement without rotation

3. the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

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

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

6. rewording something in less technical terminology

7. the act of uniform movement

  Familiarity information: TRANSLATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version

Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

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

mistranslation (an incorrect translation)

crib; pony; trot (a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly))

retroversion (translation back into the original language)

caption; subtitle (translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)

supertitle; surtitle (translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage)

Derivation:

translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

translate (be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A uniform movement without rotation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):

change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

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

displacement; shift (an event in which something is displaced without rotation)

Derivation:

translate (change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of changing in form or shape or appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

transformation; translation

Context example:

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

Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):

change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)

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

permutation (complete change in character or condition)

alteration; revision (the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification))

transfiguration (the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify)

transmogrification (the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one))

metamorphosis (a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft)

Derivation:

translate (change from one form or medium into another)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):

transformation ((mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Derivation:

translate (determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Rewording something in less technical terminology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):

paraphrase; paraphrasis (rewording for the purpose of clarification)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The act of uniform movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

displacement; translation

Hypernyms ("translation" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Derivation:

translate (subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in the regulation of both ubiquitination and translation.

(AIMP2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The siRNAs bind to PKN3 mRNAs, which may result in the inhibition of translation and expression of the PKN3 protein and, so, growth inhibition of tumor cells that overexpress PKN3.

(Anti-PKN3 siRNA Atu027, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the translation of mRNA encoded by genes involved in cell proliferation and malignant transformation.

(DDX6 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Oblimersen inhibits Bcl-2 mRNA translation, which may result in decreased expression of the Bcl-2 protein and tumor cell apoptosis.

(Oblimersen sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

To help my memory, I formed all I learned into the English alphabet, and writ the words down, with the translations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This allele, which encodes 39S ribosomal protein L45, mitochondrial, plays a role in the translation of mitochondrial RNA.

(MRPL45 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result, L-threonine can’t be linked to its tRNA, and protein translation fails.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

MiRNAs typically repress expression of their target messenger RNAs, preventing translation into proteins.

(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A data type comprised of a coded character string, which does not allow translations.

(Coded String No Translations Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the modulation of translation.

(MSI1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)