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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transition
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peaceful transition (=a peaceful change from one system to another)
▪ They hope to achieve a peaceful transition to democracy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
democratic
▪ Thus, the durability of Czechoslovakia's democratic transition will be severely tested in the coming months.
▪ To some degree, the studies avoid selection bias since some of the countries have not experienced democratic transitions.
▪ These general similarities are contrasted to the differences in the nature of their democratic transition.
▪ In each study, contextual description is used in an effort to make larger inferences about the process of democratic transition.
▪ A definitive and concise statement on democratic transition and consolidation with contemporary relevance and applicability.
▪ These differences are due to several important factors concerning the study of democratic transition.
demographic
▪ Inpart, it is a consequence of the completion of the demographic transition.
▪ They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth.
▪ Such a relatively abrupt change in the rate of increase of population size has become known as demographic transition.
▪ It is largely this lag that initiates demographic transition but other factors undoubtedly complicate the picture.
difficult
▪ She climbed higher and at last managed the difficult transition from the top of the ladder to the edge of the hatch frame.
▪ But with a clear and compelling sense of purpose, you can manage even the most difficult transitions.
▪ This would help the farmers through the first few difficult years of transition.
▪ Adjustment was difficult and the transition from a rural to an inner-city setting was hardest for women.
▪ But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star.
▪ It is a difficult transition for track athletes.
electronic
▪ The selection rules depend on the symmetry properties of the electronic transition.
▪ Another feature of electronic transitions is that the selection rule for pure vibrational transitions no longer applies.
▪ Under these circumstances there is no vibrational structure, and the electronic transition gives an unresolved band.
peaceful
▪ The peaceful transition to democracy depends mainly on the military regime.
▪ That is the way to achieve a peaceful transition.
▪ We all wish to see a peaceful transition.
political
▪ No one had expected politics to become so fraught so early on in the post-handover political transition.
▪ But in another way, it injects a wild card into the government's careful script for a controlled political transition.
▪ A case study of political transition in one of the major totalitarian regimes.
▪ Bromberg describes these transitions, and the political transitions that went with them.
smooth
▪ Labour's complex leadership rules, first used to elect Mr Kinnock in 1983, make a smooth transition impossible.
▪ The broadcasters say they need both analog and digital channels for 15 years to ensure a smooth transition to the digital age.
▪ Johnson's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power, and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team.
▪ Of this sector, electronic parts and components manufacturers made the smoothest transition to commercial markets.
▪ Ensure that children and young people with learning disabilities have a smoother transition into adulthood and adult service networks.
▪ Even so, Swilling expects his student to make a smooth transition to defensive end.
▪ Again we're using repetition in different octaves and lots of slides and pull-offs to make a smooth transition between each position.
▪ Chan cited signs that point to a smooth transition in 1997.
successful
▪ I work in a trust hospital which, as far as I can tell, has made a successful transition from directly managed status.
▪ He made a successful transition from selling religion to selling cars.
▪ He is one of the few artists to make a successful transition from music to movies.
▪ Education can only contribute one element to successful transition.
▪ The successful transition from Primary to Secondary Education is regarded as essential to the continuing success of Heriot's.
■ NOUN
glass
▪ References are given in the text for specific matters such as the glass transition and time-temperature superposition.
▪ The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure.
▪ Its derivation from and relation to free volume theories of the glass transition has been thoroughly discussed in the literature.
▪ This information is additional to that gained on crystallization, melting, glass transitions, and decompositions.
▪ When these materials are cooled below their glass transition they become brittle and shatter easily with a blow.
▪ The temperature at which this critical value is reached is the glass transition temperature.
▪ Physically the process of cooling a polymer through its glass transition would then be as follows.
metal
▪ Calculations for transition metal species present particularly difficult problems.
▪ The course includes following topics - thermodynamics, kinetics, solution chemistry, organic chemistry, transition metals and metal extraction.
▪ This is one sign of the richness of the electronic spectra of compounds containing transition metal centers.
period
▪ The postponement of the conference was cited as a reason for the extension of the transition period.
▪ Britain won an important concession-a 15-year transition period during which the regulation would not apply.
▪ This means that during the transition period, your documents will be better, but less than ideal.
▪ Despite a ten-year transition period, both countries suffered balance of payments problems on entering the Community.
▪ After the transition period, broadcasters were to return the original spectrum to the government for auction.
▪ There is inevitably a transition period after the implementation of any major piece of legislation.
▪ For Bukharin, the transition period encompassed two distinct phases.
probability
▪ Matrix R is the transition probability matrix raised to the power two.
▪ The table of transition probabilities for the travel example would be laid out as shown in Table 6.2.
▪ It is usual to find a progression indicating significant transition probabilities to many vibrational levels of the modes concerned.
▪ Both systems use transition probabilities between syntactically tagged form class pairs to prune the search.
▪ Reducing the length One version of the Edinburgh syntactic component used pair-wise transition probabilities between words.
▪ Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example.
▪ This is what the transition probability matrix tells us.
▪ When the actual counts were converted to transition probabilities the results shown in Table 6.4 were obtained.
process
▪ The remainder of the transition process consists of the growth of these local regions of turbulent motion, whilst they travel downstream.
▪ The transition process involved employees and management at all levels.
▪ An interesting feature of the transition process is vortex pairing, seen in Fig. 18.10.
▪ The existing transition process has proceeded, and succeeded, for nearly a decade.
▪ Instead we have to introduce a set of Reynolds numbers relating to different events in the transition process.
▪ There are some things that you can do to help yourself get through the three-phase transition process.
▪ Once turbulent slugs are produced, the transition process is substantially the same at all values of the Reynolds number.
▪ We encourage the strengthening of co-operation to support the transition processes, regional co-operation and environmental responsibility.
team
▪ Oki intends to leave a transition team in place until October though its function remains unclear.
▪ Five of his former commissioners serve on the transition team.
▪ Herman was named co-director of the presidential transition team when Clinton was first elected in 1992.
temperature
▪ The temperature at which this critical value is reached is the glass transition temperature.
▪ The extra-oral treatment requires processing at temperatures closer to the glass transition temperature where segmental mobility allows additional polymerisation.
▪ As pressure increases, the transition temperature increases.
■ VERB
ease
▪ It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.
▪ Person has been active in Farm Wrap, a program that helps ease the transition from agriculture to other careers.
▪ We have provided valuable economic and humanitarian aid to ease the transition to a market economy.
▪ But Golding said she would work with Huntington Beach officials to ease his transition.
▪ As a way to ease that transition, the Department of Defense has agreed to allow it to become a redevelopment area.
▪ It was Schindler who stepped in at that moment to ease the transition to the right.
▪ This meeting was to air grievances and ease our transition into the future.
ensure
▪ Johnson's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power, and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team.
▪ The broadcasters say they need both analog and digital channels for 15 years to ensure a smooth transition to the digital age.
help
▪ The alliance was created to help the transition from a defense-dominated economy to more diverse industries.
▪ She is expected to remain with justice at least through March to help Reno with the transition.
▪ Daniel will move into the new job in early February, as Yates stays to help with the transition.
▪ He helped in the transition of leadership in Chicago when Elijah Muhammad died.
make
▪ I work in a trust hospital which, as far as I can tell, has made a successful transition from directly managed status.
▪ You have made the transition from character to caricature.
▪ In my garden it has made a swift transition from weed to wild flower to flower.
▪ Some, like Jodie Foster, make the transition.
▪ Without Rice to fall back on like a feather bed of dreams, the 49ers made the transition from specificity to diversity.
▪ Now, she helps people with disabilities make the transition from home to workplace by counseling them and their employers.
▪ Second, Labour under Mr Kinnock is belatedly making the transition to continental-style social democracy.
▪ Of this sector, electronic parts and components manufacturers made the smoothest transition to commercial markets.
manage
▪ Children manage these transitions with various degrees of capability.
mark
▪ But suddenly, marking the transition to the Tertiary, there is a sharp global discontinuity in everything.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a scheme to help families making the transition from welfare to work
▪ It's difficult for someone who's been a stage actor to make the transition to television.
▪ The transition from a communist system to a free market economy will be difficult.
▪ The new system will be introduced gradually over a six month transition period.
▪ The textile industry is currently in transition.
▪ You need a better transition between the second and third paragraphs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Except for Aunt Pat, my transition to city life was a series of agonies.
▪ For most people, the transition from infection to overt illness takes from six to ten years.
▪ I resolved that the transition should be a smooth one.
▪ It seems to have been a religion that was in transition, which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions.
▪ Mid-1945 was an important period of transition for him.
▪ The transition is even more painful if interest rates happen to be rising at the time.
▪ Where the transitions were more subtle, as in changing cultural conceptions among the literati, the Jesuits were less successful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transition

Transition \Tran*si"tion\, n. [L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See Transient.]

  1. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

    There is no death, what seems so is transition.
    --Longfellow.

  2. (Mus.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

  3. (Rhet.) A passing from one subject to another.

    [He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes.
    --Milton.

  4. (Biol.) Change from one form to another.

    Note: This word is sometimes pronounced tran*sish"un; but according to Walker, Smart, and most other authorities, the customary and preferable pronunciation is tran*sizh"un, although this latter mode violates analogy. Other authorities say tran*zish"un.

    Transition rocks (Geol.), a term formerly applied to the lowest uncrystalline stratified rocks (graywacke) supposed to contain no fossils, and so called because thought to have been formed when the earth was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transition

mid-15c., from Latin transitionem (nominative transitio) "a going across or over," noun of action from past participle stem of transire "go or cross over" (see transient).

Wiktionary
transition

n. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a transition#Noun. 2 (context transitive English) To bring through a transition#Noun; to change. 3 (context intransitive LGBT English) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.

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WordNet
transition

  1. n. the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: passage]

  2. an event that results in a transformation [syn: conversion, changeover]

  3. a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another

  4. a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: modulation]

  5. a passage that connects a topic to one that follows

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Wikipedia
Transition

Transition or transitional may refer to:

Transition (literary journal)

transition was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists. It was founded in 1927 by poet Eugene Jolas and his wife Maria McDonald and published in Paris. They were later assisted by editors Elliot Paul (April 1927- March 1928), Robert Sage (October 1927-Fall 1928), and James Johnson Sweeney (June 1936-May 1938).

Transition (John Coltrane album)

Transition is an album of music by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, recorded in 1965 but released posthumously only in 1970. As its title indicates, Transition was a bridge between classic quartet recordings like A Love Supreme and the more experimental works of Coltrane's last years. For some reason, Impulse! decided to alter the track listing of the original album on the CD edition, removing "Dear Lord" and replacing it with two pieces originally released on Kulu Sé Mama, both recorded on June 10: "Welcome" and "Vigil". However, the 2001 Japanese edition restored the original track listing.

Coltrane's playing alternates between blues idioms and the free jazz that would dominate his final work. Of the four musicians on this album, pianist McCoy Tyner was still the most grounded in traditional jazz. Bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones were finding new ways to approach their instruments, while Coltrane took the lead with a newfound musical freedom.

Transition's title track is a fifteen-minute modified blues, whilst "Dear Lord" is a ballad featuring Roy Haynes substituting for Jones on drums. "Welcome," which replaces "Dear Lord" on the album's compact disc release, is a five-minute ballad with a theme pitched high in the tenor saxophone's altissimo register and making extensive use of multiphonics. The closing "Suite" is a twenty-minute performance, covering a variety of moods. "Vigil", which concludes the CD release of the album, is a fiery duet between Coltrane and Jones.

Two months after this recording, Coltrane's quartet moved further into experimental territory with the album Sun Ship.

Transition (The First Edition album)

' Transition 'is the seventh album by the group Kenny Rogers & The First Edition.

Transition (fiction)

Transitions in fiction are words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or punctuation that may be used to signal various changes in a story, including changes in time, location, point-of-view character, mood, tone, emotion, and pace. Transitions are sometimes listed as one of various fiction-writing modes.

Transition (novel)

'Transition ' is a novel by Iain Banks, first published in 2009. The American edition was published under the name "Iain M. Banks", which is the name Banks used for his science fiction work.

Transition (Chipmunk album)

Transition is the second studio album by English hip-hop artist Chipmunk. It was released on 15 April 2011 by Jive Records in the United Kingdom, but was set to be released in the United States on 12 July 2011 by RCA Records at the same time with Jive Records and Sony Music Entertainment. The album debuted at number 10 in the United Kingdom, with first-week sales of 9,445 copies.

Transition (Buddy Rich Lionel Hampton album)

Transition is a jazz album recorded by Buddy Rich and Lionel Hampton and released on the Groove Merchant Record label in 1974.

Transition (Peter Michael Hamel album)

Transition is the eighth album of composer Peter Michael Hamel, released in 1983 through Kuckuck Schallplatten.

Transition (genetics)

In genetics, a transition is a point mutation that changes a purine nucleotide to another purine ( A ↔ G) or a pyrimidine nucleotide to another pyrimidine ( C ↔ T). Approximately two out of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are transitions.

Transitions can be caused by oxidative deamination and tautomerization. Although there are twice as many possible transversions, transitions appear more often in genomes, possibly due to the molecular mechanisms that generate them.

5-Methylcytosine is more prone to transition than unmethylated cytosine, due to spontaneous deamination. This mechanism is important because it dictates the rarity of CpG islands.

Transition (grappling)

A transition in grappling is a move from one grappling hold or grappling position to another. The process is called transitioning and is one of the most important aspects of ground grappling, as it allows the combatant performing the transition to advance in positioning, for instance by using a sweep, or to attempt pinning holds or submission holds.

In judo, the term is also used to refer to the skilful transition between standing phase and the ground phase.

Transition (band)

Transition, not to be confused with a disbanded Pittsburgh punk group of the same name, is an English rock indie band from Bristol. They lend their style to the influence of U2, Radiohead and Jeff Buckley, and were voted amongst the Top Ten Bands in the UK on Channel 4's Slash Music Showcase. Formed in 2007, Transition is made up of the brothers Jesse Edbrooke ( guitarist) and Josh Edbrooke ( drummer) together with Niall Dunne (guitarist). They said that they like Taiwan and Taiwanese people. They sing some of their songs in Chinese.

The band has released seven albums and are distributed by Corridor Records in the UK and WWR in Asia. Their release, Three Bridges (2008), received a nine out of ten rating from Cross Rhythms UK.

The band has a fan base largely based in Asia, having performed in the UK, Sweden, Taiwan (where the band played at the Spring Scream and Formoz ( 野台開唱) music festivals), Korea and Hong Kong. In 2008, the band played at Bay Beats from 29 to 30 August, an indie music festival in Singapore. They were the final act on the Nokia Arena at the Esplanade on the last day of the festival. Most recently, they stayed in Taipei, Taiwan for over six months.

Transition (John Miles album)

Transition is the seventh solo album of John Miles in 1985. In early 1984, Miles began to work on songs for his next album and went on tour to promote his current album Play On. In late spring 1984, Miles and Marshall wrote more songs from the album while their manager was looking for a new record label.

Some time later, while he was performing in a residence in Ibiza, Miles met Phil Carson, who was an executive from Atlantic Records. He signed Miles to a new record label, Valentino.
Miles and Marshall started to work with producer Trevor Rabin. Rabin, who had other commitments, only produced two tracks for them ("Blinded" and "I Need Your Love"). Miles did not want another long delay like with the previous album, he continued recording with engineer Pat Moran (who produced all other tracks except "Watching on Me" which was produced by Beau Hill) in Wales. "Blinded" and "I Need Your Love" were released as singles, but both failed to chart in the U.K, just like the album.

Transition (Steve Lukather album)

Transition is the seventh studio album by Steve Lukather, released on vinyl and as a jewel case CD on January 21, 2013 by Mascot Records. In Europe a limited edition Digibook was also released, containing a booklet with studio pictures and liner notes from Lukather and producer C. J. Vanston.

Transition (Ryan Leslie album)

Transition is the second album by R&B singer-songwriter and producer Ryan Leslie. This is the second album by Leslie released in 2009, nine months after his self-titled debut album. The entire album is written, arranged, produced and engineered by Ryan Leslie. It was inspired by a lady whom Leslie met during a rehearsal for his showcase at New York's S.O.B.'s. They went on to have a relationship during the summer of 2009, which the album tells the story of. The first single for the album is entitled "You're Not My Girl", which was released in July 2009. The second single "I Choose You" was released in January 2010. The album was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. The Album has Sold 60,000 copies in US.

Transition (music)

In music, the transition is the middle section or formal function, while the main theme is the beginning, and the subordinate theme is the ending. It may traditionally be a part of the Sonata form's exposition in which the composer modulates from the key of the first subject to the key of the second, though many Classical era works move straight from first to second subject groups without any transition.

For example, transition may be defined as different from a subordinate theme ( rondo form) or a developmental core.

In sonata form, a retransition is the last part of the development section which prepares for the return of the first subject group in the tonic, most often through a grand prolongation of the dominant seventh.

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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.