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Grammar : Noun
Spell : tran-zish-uhn, -sish-
Phonetic Transcription : trænˈzɪʃ ən, -ˈsɪʃ-



Definition of transition

Origin :
  • 1550s, 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).
  • noun change, often major
Example sentences :
  • From one enemy of Robert the transition is brief and natural to another.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • For him these years were a period of mental growth, of transition, of development.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • This transition of thought from the cause to the effect proceeds not from reason.
  • Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
  • Such measures are good as makeshifts in a period of transition.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • Let there be nothing in the state of transition worse than simple imprisonment.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • I want to get the transition over now, though it is rather an abrupt one.
  • Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
  • We are not the end, we are but a transition, a beginning of something else.
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • In my own country the progress of development has reached a point of transition.
  • Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root
  • But he has hitherto been unable to make the transition from mathematics to metaphysics.
  • Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
  • Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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