Changeover

Usage examples of transition.

Rays have an organ closely analogous to the electric apparatus, and yet do not, as Matteuchi asserts, discharge any electricity, we must own that we are far too ignorant to argue that no transition of any kind is possible.

The new compounds have unlimited current density capacities, and remain superconductive up to the antiferromagnetic transition temperature, in the area of 330 degrees Celsius.

Occasionally, indeed, in this plant, the transition may be still more definitely observed, in leaves which are half anastomosed and half thread-like.

If there was a transition between two buckytube geometries, there has to be a discontinuity, a weak link.

Our present need for privacy in many things marks, indeed, a phase of transition from an ease in public in the past due to homogeneity, to an ease in public in the future due to intelligence and good breeding, and in Utopia that transition will be complete.

The transition he made from his personal story to his explanation of mediumship was subtle and unnoticed.

As I understand it, that transition phase is only minimally able to perform starship crew duties.

Irving had been with Calla-Lily since the start of his career as an engineer and had seen them through the transition from stockings to panty hose and all the other crises in between, including the year of the fishnets.

The speech begins with two quatrains, marked at the transitions by end punctuation.

A LOT of things in Recluce, my transition from apprentice to student dangergelder just happened.

Very much like mobile telephony - which allowed the countries in transition to skip massive investments in outdated technologies - the Internet was perceived to be a shortcut to prosperity.

Presently the sudden transition from daylight to darkness which, owing to the tenuity of the air upon Barsoom, occurs almost without the warning twilight of Earth, would occur.

The power that came with the transition had always frightened her, for it was a cold, hard manifestation, unhuman and inhuman both.

So swift was that transition from the grisly unreal to the normal that even to my unsuperstitious mind it smacked of necromancy.

Like Lord Unwin, Henry Calder Rackham appears to have made an abrupt transition from portliness to fat, during the same passage of time in which William has transformed himself from an effete good-for-nothing into a captain of industry.