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transition

UK/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/US/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,773 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: transitions

A transition is the passage from one state to another. A smooth transition, in transition, the transition period.

In politics a transition is the handover between one government and the next, and the rules around it exist because that gap is the most dangerous moment a state has. In writing, a transition is the sentence that carries a reader from one idea to the next.

Definitions of transition

  1. 1nountransitionThe passage from one state to another.B2

    “The transition from school to university can be difficult for some students.”

transition is a passage.

Where it comes from

Latin transitio comes from transire, to go across — trans plus ire, to go. Transit and transient are relatives.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₁ey-

  2. Middle French

    transition

  3. English, today

    transition

Borrowed from Middle French transition. From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. by surface analysis, transit + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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transition in the wild

  • In physics, chemistry and biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.

    Phase transition

  • During a phase transition of a given medium, certain properties of the medium change as a result of the change of external conditions, such as temperature or pressure.

    Phase transition

  • From 2015 to 2016, she starred in the reality television series I Am Cait, which focused on her gender transition.

    Caitlyn Jenner

  • The democratic transition began two days after the death of Francisco Franco, in November 1975.

    Spanish transition to democracy

  • Barack Obama's presidential transition began when he won the United States presidential election on November 4, 2008, and became the president-elect.

    Presidential transition of Barack Obama

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • transit