translationallyadv.
/transˈleɪʃn̩əli/, /transˈleɪʃn̩l̩i/, /transˈleɪʃənl̩i/, /transˈleɪʃ(ə)nəli/, /trɑːnsˈleɪʃn̩əli/, /trɑːnsˈleɪʃn̩l̩i/, /trɑːnsˈleɪʃənl̩i/, /trɑːnsˈleɪʃ(ə)nəli/, /tranzˈleɪʃn̩əli/, /tranzˈleɪʃn̩l̩i/, /tranzˈleɪʃənl̩i/, /tranzˈleɪʃ(ə)nəli/, /trɑːnzˈleɪʃn̩əli/, /trɑːnzˈleɪʃn̩l̩i/, /trɑːnzˈleɪʃənl̩i/, /trɑːnzˈleɪʃ(ə)nəli/, U.S. /trænzˈleɪʃ(ə)nəli/, /træn(t)sˈleɪʃ(ə)nəli/ 1. With respect to, or by means of, translational motion.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > [adverb]
alonga1393
'long1663
locomotively1729
translationally1893
1893 O. Heaviside in Philos. Trans. 1892 (Royal Soc.) A. 183 438 The translational portion may be removed altogether... If the quantities with the zero suffix are only translationally involved.
1916 M. A. S. Riach Air-screws i. 8 The depth of the cylinder will then represent the distance advanced through translationally by the point, and therefore by the whole air-screw, at each revolution.
1973 Science 1 June 983/3 The molecular components of many cell membranes are rotationally and translationally mobile.
2012 A. Plakhov Exterior Billiards i. 15 The body B moves translationally with fixed velocity while at the same time slowly rotating.
2. With regard to language translation.
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1952 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 18 191/2 The difference in meaning between suffix 616 and suffix 618 is not translationally indicated.
1959 Archivum Linguisticum 11 152 It is..no use trying..to measure range of content as the ‘number of meanings’..of translationally equivalent words.
1978 J. Dunn in C. Hookway & P. Pettit Action & Interpr. 172 A translationally adequate science of human meanings must in principle be pragmatically accessible.
2000 Computers & Humanities 34 68 The disambiguation of these two senses is perhaps translationally and syntactically irrelevant and quite problematic in most of the contexts.
3. Biology. With regard to, by means of, or during the translation of messenger RNA into a protein or polypeptide chain.See also post-translationally adv. at post- prefix 2a(b)(iv)(2).
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1966 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 31 342/2 Our studies have not advanced to the stage where extending the concept of translationally inhibited ribosomes to account for the duration of viral interference may profit from quantitative considerations.
1974 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71 4635/1 The 3ʹ-terminal poly(A) sequence is not necessary to maintain the translationally active secondary and tertiary configuration of the globin mRNA molecule.
2015 T. W. Overton in M. G. Wilkinson Flow Cytometry in Microbiol. vii. 140 Proteins to be displayed on the cell surface are translationally fused to Aga2p, a protein which is secreted by S. cerevisiae.
Compounds
translationally invariant adj. Physics and Mathematics (a) invariant with respect to translation (translation n. 16) (b) (of a physical law) that applies at all points in space; not distinguishing between different points in space.
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1950 Physical Rev. 79 795/1 The exchange current density is found to depend on a vector fuction..whose solenoidal part is arbitrary except for the requirements..that it be translationally invariant and antisymmetric under the exchange of the spin and space coordinates of each pair of nucleons.
1981 C. H. Llewellyn-Smith in J. H. Mulvey Nature of Matter iii. 55 If momentum is conserved then the underlying laws must necessarily be translationally invariant.
2014 N. Manini Introd. Physics of Matter v. 147 The translationally invariant kinetic energy..tends to favor states characterized by delocalized and uncorrelated positions of individual atoms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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