Wiktionary
a. 1 (context translation studies English) of, or relating to translating, or to a translation 2 (context physics English) of, or relating to a body in motion 3 (context sciences English) of or relating to the transfer of scientific knowledge into practical applications
WordNet
adj. of or relating to uniform movement without rotation [ant: nontranslational]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "translational".
Such a periodic array has the property of translational invariance, for obvious reasons.
A checkerboard is a two-dimensional system with translational invariance.
A crystal is a three-dimensional system with translational invariance.
There were small joysticks and push buttons: translational controllers, to work the Command Module's clusters of attitude rockets.
But by the time you were well they were all dead, killed in a translational malfunction of their star-ship.
Back in the auberge, I had imagined many possible derangements of the Pliocene world, fierce beasts, inhospitable terrain, exploitation of newcomers by the earlier arrivals among the time-farers, even a malfunction of the translational field that would cast the poor travelers into oblivion.
There were tiny joysticks and pushbuttons: translational controllers, to work the Command Module's clusters of attitude rockets.
All my men can speak Spanish through the suits' translational capabilities.
I have never considered using the translational power before this, simply be-cause there was no question of deserting my people.