Usually means: Process of changing from one state.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word transition:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. transition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. transition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Transition, transition: Wordnik
  7. transition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. transition: Wiktionary
  9. transition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. transition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. transition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. transition: Dictionary.com
  13. transition (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. transition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Transition (EP), The Transition (album), Transition (Chipmunk album), Transition (John Coltrane album), Transition (John Miles album), Transition (Ryan Leslie album), Transition (Steve Lukather album), Transition (The First Edition album), Transition (computer science), Transition (fiction), Transition (genetics), Transition (grappling), Transition (linguistics), Transition (magazine), Transition (music), Transition (novel), Transition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Transition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. transition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. transition: Rhymezone
  19. transition, transition (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. transition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. transition: Free Dictionary
  22. transition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. transition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Transition (literary journal): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Transition: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Transition: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. transition: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. transition: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. transition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  3. Transition (genetics), transition: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. TRANSITION: Masonic Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. -Transition: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. transition: Evolution Glossary
  4. -transition: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transition: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Transition: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
noun:  A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
noun:  (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
noun:  (music) A change of key.
noun:  (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
noun:  (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
noun:  (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
noun:  (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
noun:  (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
noun:  (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
noun:  (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
noun:  (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a transition.
verb:  (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
verb:  (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

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