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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...
- magnetic phase transitions is provided by the Ising model. Phase transitions involving solutions and mixtures are more complicated than transitions involving...
- ideas relate to one another. Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". Transitions guide a reader/listener through...
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- Friedman, Jannice (2011). "Gone with the wind: understanding evolutionary transitions between wind and animal pollination in the angiosperms". The New Phytologist...
- School transitions are the conversions students go through as they change schools throughout their lives. These transitions play a major role in the development...
- Transitions is the first full-colour 3D IMAX film, created for the Canada Pavilion at Expo 86, co-directed by Colin Low and Tony Ianzelo and produced...
- reduced. In general charge transfer transitions result in more intense colours than d–d transitions. d–d transitions. An electron jumps from one d orbital...
- more substantiative transitions are required across multiple interdependent systems to mitigate impacts. The technological transitions framework does acknowledge...
- states and transitions between states, which may be labeled with labels chosen from a set; the same label may appear on more than one transition. If the...