Main entry: displacement, translation
Definition: the act of uniform movement
Main entry: transformation, translation
Definition: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
Usage: a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface
Main entry: translation
Definition: rewording something in less technical terminology
Main entry: version, rendering, interlingual rendition, translation
Definition: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
Main entry: translation
Definition: a uniform movement without rotation
Main entry: translation
Definition: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
Main entry: translation
Definition: (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