What is "transfer"

Transfer \Trans"fer\, n.

1. The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

2. (Law) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

   I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property.
   --Burke.

3. That which is transferred. Specifically:

   1. A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.
      --Fairholt.

   2. A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

   3. (Mil.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

4. (Med.) A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

   Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.
   --Bithell.

   Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.

   Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions.

   Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.

Transfer \Trans*fer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transferred; p. pr. & vb. n. Transferring.] [L. transferre; trans across, over + ferre to bear: cf. F. transf['e]rer. See Bear to carry.]

1. To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

2. To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

3. To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.
   --Tomlinson.

   Syn: To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.

late 14c., from Old French transferer or directly from Latin transferre "bear across, carry over, bring through; transfer, copy, translate," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + ferre "to carry" (see infer). Related: Transferred; transferring.

1670s, "conveyance of property," from transfer (v.).

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of conveying or remove something from one place, person or thing to another. 2 (context countable English) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another. 2 (context transitive English) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another. 3 (context intransitive English) To be or become transferred. 4 (context transitive legal English) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

1. n. the act of transporting something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transferral, conveyance]

2. someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another; "the best student was a transfer from LSU" [syn: transferee]

3. the act of transfering something from one form to another; "the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise" [syn: transference]

4. a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances

5. application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation [syn: transfer of training, carry-over]

6. transferring ownership [syn: transference]

7. [also: transferring, transferred]

1. v. move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" [syn: shift]

2. transfer somebody to a different position or location of work [syn: reassign]

3. move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital"

4. lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" [syn: transplant]

5. cause to change ownership; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"

6. change from one vehicle or transportation line to another; "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast" [syn: change]

7. send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transport, channel, channelize, channelise]

8. shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court" [syn: remove]

9. transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transpose, transplant]

10. [also: transferring, transferred]

Transfer may refer to:

In the mathematical field of group theory, the transfer defines, given a group G and a subgroup of finite index H, a group homomorphism from G to the abelianization of H. It can be used in conjunction with the Sylow theorems to obtain certain numerical results on the existence of finite simple groups.

The transfer was defined by and rediscovered by .

Transfer is a 1966 short film written, shot, edited and directed by David Cronenberg. It features Mort Ritts and Rafe Macpherson and has a runtime of 7 minutes.

In Cronenberg on Cronenberg, edited by Chris Rodley (ISBN 0-571-19137-1), Cronenberg summarized Transfer as follows:

A transfer allows the rider of a public transportation vehicle who pays for a single-trip fare to continue the trip on another bus or train. Depending on the network, there may or may not be an additional fee for the transfer. Historically, transfers may have been stamped or hole-punched with the time, date, and direction of travel to prevent their use for a return trip. More recently, magnetic or barcoded tickets may be recorded (as on international flights) or ticket barriers may only charge on entry and exit to a larger system (as on modern underground rail networks).

Some public transport companies may honor transfers purchased from another company with connecting service.

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of management studies. The journal's editor-in-chief is Maria Jepsen ( European Trade Union Institute). It was established in 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the European Trade Union Institute.

In professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs. It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one association football club to another. In general, the players can only be transferred during a transfer window and according to the rules set by a governing body. Usually some sort of compensation is paid for the player's rights, which is known as a transfer fee. When a player moves from one club to another, their old contract is terminated and they negotiate a new one with the club they are moving to, unlike in American, Canadian and Australian sports, where teams essentially trade existing player contracts. In some cases, however, transfers can function in a similar manner to player trades, as teams can offer another player on their squad as part of the compensation.

As objects of intellectual property or intangible assets, patents and patent applications may be transferred. A transfer of patent or patent application can be the result of a financial transaction, such as an assignment, a merger, a takeover or a demerger, or the result of an operation of law, such as in an inheritance process, or in a bankruptcy.

The rationale behind the transferability of patents and patent applications is that it enables inventors to sell their rights and to let other people manage these intellectual property assets both on the valuation and enforcement fronts. As The Economist put it,

In computer technology, transfers per second and its more common derivatives gigatransfers per second (abbreviated as GT/s) and megatransfers per second (MT/s) are informal language that refer to the number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel. It is also known as sample rate, i.e. the number of data samples captured per second, each sample normally occurring at the clock edge. The terms are neutral with respect to the method of physically accomplishing each such data-transfer operation; nevertheless, they are most commonly used in the context of transmission of digital data. 1 MT/s is 10 or one million transfers per second; similarly, 1 GT/s means 10, or equivalently in the US/ short scale, one billion transfers per second.

These terms alone do not specify the bit rate at which binary data is being transferred, because they do not specify the number of bits transferred in each transfer operation (known as the channel width or word length). In order to calculate the data transmission rate, one must multiply the transfer rate by the information channel width. For example, a data bus eight-bytes wide (64 bits) by definition transfers eight bytes in each transfer operation; at a transfer rate of 1 GT/s, the data rate would be 8 × 10 B/s, i.e. 8 GB/s, or approximately 7.45 GiB/s. The bit rate for this example is 64 Gbit/s (8 × 8 × 10 bit/s).

The formula for a data transfer rate is: Channel width (bits/transfer) × transfers/second = bits/second.

Expanding the width of a channel, for example that between a CPU and a northbridge, increases data throughput without requiring an increase in the channel's operating frequency (measured in transfers per second). This is analogous to increasing throughput by increasing bandwidth but leaving latency unchanged.

The units usually refer to the "effective" number of transfers, or transfers perceived from "outside" of a system or component, as opposed to the internal speed or rate of the clock of the system. One example is a computer bus running at double data rate where data is transferred on both the rising and falling edge of the clock signal. If its internal clock runs at 100 MHz, then the effective rate is 200 MT/s, because there are 100 million rising edges per second and 100 million falling edges per second of a clock signal running at 100 MHz.

SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) falls in the megatransfer range of data transfer rate, while newer bus architectures like the front side bus, Quick Path Interconnect, PCI Express and HyperTransport operate at the rate of a few GT/s.

In travel, a transfer is local travel arranged as part of an itinerary, typically airport to hotel and hotel to hotel. Transfer has some features that distinguish it from ground transportation alternative. This features are meeting directly in a transport hub, opportunity to choose a car class and additional options like a baby seat.

Transfer is a technique used in propaganda and advertising. Also known as association, this is a technique of projecting positive or negative qualities ( praise or blame) of a person, entity, object, or value (an individual, group, organization, nation, patriotism, etc.) to another in order to make the second more acceptable or to discredit it. It evokes an emotional response, which stimulates the target to identify with recognized authorities. Often highly visual, this technique often utilizes symbols superimposed over other visual images. An example of common use of this technique in the United States is for the President to be filmed or photographed in front of the country's flag. Another technique used is celebrity endorsement.

Transfer is a 2010 German drama film directed by Damir Lukacevic.