translation

B1 · Intermediate Countable noun

n. a book, document, or piece of text that has been changed into a different language.

n. the specific product or text resulting from the act of translating.

“I have two different translations of the Bible on my bookshelf.”

“Scholars compared several nineteenth-century translations of the manuscript to identify where the original meaning might have been obscured.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Mathematics Technical

n. moving something from one place to another without changing its shape or turning it.

n. the act of moving something from one location to another; in geometry, a transformation that slides a figure in a specific direction.

“A translation moves every point of a shape the same distance in the same direction.”

“The software calculates the precise translation required to align the two three-dimensional models without any rotational adjustment.”

C2 · Proficiency Uncountable noun Science Technical

n. the process in a cell where a message is used to build a protein.

n. the process by which a sequence of nucleotide triplets in a messenger RNA molecule gives rise to a specific sequence of amino acids during protein synthesis.

“Translation is a key step in how our bodies use genetic information to grow.”

“During translation, the ribosome moves along the mRNA strand, facilitating the assembly of a polypeptide chain based on the genetic code.”