transition

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit +‎ -ion. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/, /tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/, /-sɪ-/, /-ʒən/ (US) IPA(key): /tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/, /-sɪ-/ Rhymes: -ɪʃən Hyphenation: tran‧si‧tion === Noun === transition (countable and uncountable, plural transitions) The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another. Holonym: metadiscourse (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes. (music) A change of key. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth. (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living. (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping. (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth. Synonym: gender transition (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure. (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death. ==== Usage notes ==== In the United Kingdom education system, the noun is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next. Contrast transfer, which is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. In the United States education system, the noun is used to define a move from a one phase of an Independent Educational Program to another specifically regarding the child's or adult's progress from more or less special educational support to greater independent living. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === transition (third-person singular simple present transitions, present participle transitioning, simple past and past participle transitioned) (intransitive) To make a transition. (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change. (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “transition”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. “transition”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. “transition”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “transition” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman. “transition”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. === Anagrams === nitrations == French == === Etymology === From Latin trānsitiōnem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === transition f (plural transitions) transition ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== transir transitif === Further reading === “transition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012