Transition

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Definitions from Oxford Languages

 

tran·si·tion

 

noun: transition; plural noun: transitions

the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

"students in transition from one program to another"

 

Similar:

change move passage transformation conversion adaptation adjustment alteration metamorphosis shift switch jump leap progression progress gradation development evolution transfiguration flux mutation transmutation vicissitude

 

 

the process by which a transgender person permanently adopts the outward or physical characteristics that match their gender identity, as opposed to those associated with the sex registered for them at birth. The process may or may not involve measures such as hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery.

"she had been living as a woman for eight years at that point and had completed her transition in 2001"

 

MUSIC

a momentary modulation from one key to another.

 

PHYSICS

a change of an atom, nucleus, electron, etc. from one quantum state to another, with emission or absorption of radiation.