EGAVE

transition

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 33.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
  2. noun A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
  3. noun A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
  4. noun A change of key.
  5. noun A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
  6. noun A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
  7. noun The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

changeover conversion modulation passage segue switchover change changing transposition transformation

Often followed by

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Word family

transit transited transiting transition period transition periods transitional transitioned transitioning transitions transitory

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