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noun

1. 1

   the act of uniform movement

2. 2

   the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

   a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface

3. 3

   rewording something in less technical terminology

4. 4

   a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

5. 5

   a uniform movement without rotation

6. 6

   (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

7. 7

   (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same