单词 | transition |
释义 | transition/tranˈzɪʃ(ə)n / /trɑːnˈzɪʃ(ə)n/ /tranˈsɪʃ(ə)n/ /tranˈsɪʃ(ə)n/noun [mass noun] 1The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another: students in transition from one programme to another [count noun]: a transition to multiparty democracy...
Synonyms change, move, passage, transformation, conversion, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, changeover, metamorphosis; shift, switch, jump, leap, progression, progress, gradation, development, evolution; transfiguration, flux, mutation, transmutation, vicissitude 1.1The process by which a person permanently adopts the outward or physical characteristics of the gender with which they identify, as opposed to those associated with their birth sex. The process may or may not involve measures such as hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery: she had been living as a woman for eight years at that point and had completed her transition in 2001 he began the transition from female to male in the 10th grade...
1.2 [count noun] Music A momentary modulation from one key to another.I was bowled over by the energy of the Seventh Symphony which has a lovely transition in the First Movement and a dreamy Allegretto reminding one of hallowed antiquity....
1.3 [count noun] Physics A change of an atom, nucleus, electron, etc. from one quantum state to another, with emission or absorption of radiation.The absorption and emission spectra of molecules can be correlated with such transitions of electrons between allowed quantized energy levels....
verb 1Undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition: [no object]: he transitioned into filmmaking easily [with object]: a firm specializing in transitioning companies from old technologies to new ones...
1.1 [no object] Adopt permanently the outward or physical characteristics of the gender one identifies with, as opposed to those associated with one’s birth sex: once the decision was finally made to transition, she was overwhelmed with the support from her immediate family...
Derivativestransitionary
OriginMid 16th century: from French, or from Latin transitio(n-), from transire 'go across'. |
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