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the process of changing, or a change from one form or condition to another: [ U ] It was a neighborhood in transition from Jewish to Italian with a sprinkling of Irish. [ C ] Retirement is a big transition. literature, music. A transition is also a link between ideas or sections in a work of literature or music.
A transition is a change from one thing to the next, either in action or state of being—as in a job transition or as in the much more dramatic example of a caterpillar making a transition into a butterfly. Transition is awfully reassuring in its tidy reliance on regular forms.
Definition of transition noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun [ C, U ] formal uk / trænˈzɪʃ ə n / us. Add to word list. a change from one system or method to another, often a gradual one: The country is in the process of making the transition from military rule to democracy. transitional. adjective. a transitional period / phase. a transitional government.
This course is useful for students who are in transition (= in the process of changing) from one field of study to another. Definition of transition noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A passing or passage from one condition, action, or (rarely) place, to another; change. 1545. Than folowed transmutacyon, transicyon, and transaccidentacyon, but not transfyguracyon yet to this daye. J. Bale, Mysterye Inyquyte P. Pantolabus f. 33 v. 1551.
verb. /trænˈzɪʃn/ Verb Forms. [intransitive, transitive] to change or to make something change from one state or condition to another. They transitioned from print journalism to the digital world. Almost every country in the world has made the decision to transition away from fossil fuels.
