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noun
  1. the act of uniform movement
    displacement
  2. the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
    “a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface”
    transformation
  3. rewording something in less technical terminology
  4. a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
    rendering
  5. a uniform movement without rotation
  6. the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
    “The faulty translation of the RNA led to a mis-folded protein.”
  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