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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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- Look up transition, transitate, transitional, transitionally, or transitions in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transition or transitional may refer...
- Transitions Optical is a U.S.-based company known for manufacturing photochromic lenses. The company was founded in 1990. In 1991, Transitions Optical...
- phenomenological theory of second-order phase transitions. Apart from isolated, simple phase transitions, there exist transition lines as well as multicritical points...
- Friedman, Jannice (2011). "Gone with the wind: understanding evolutionary transitions between wind and animal pollination in the angiosperms". The New Phytologist...
- Approximately two out of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are transitions. Transitions can be caused by oxidative deamination and tautomerization. Although...
- physics and chemistry, a selection rule, or transition rule, formally constrains the possible transitions of a system from one quantum state to another...
- School transitions are the conversions students go through as they change schools throughout their lives. These transitions play a major role in the development...
- or other topological space the function that defines the transitions of a state transition system in computing, which may refer more specifically to...
- PMIDĀ 34840400. Davidsson, Simon (2015). "Global Energy Transitions" (PDF). Smil, Vaclav. "Energy Transitions" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-06-07. "Fossil Energy". Center...
- of vertebrates are related, including many transitional fossils. Specific examples of class-level transitions are: tetrapods and fish, birds and dinosaurs...