Transition

English Meaning

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

1. Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another.
2. Passage from one subject to another in discourse.
3. A word, phrase, sentence, or series of sentences connecting one part of a discourse to another.
4. Music A modulation, especially a brief one.
5. Music A passage connecting two themes or sections.
6. Genetics A point mutation in which a pyrimidine is replaced by another pyrimidine, or a purine is replaced by another purine.
7. Sports The process of changing from defense to offense or offense to defense, as in basketball or hockey.
8. A period during childbirth that precedes the expulsive phase of labor, characterized by strong uterine contractions and nearly complete cervical dilation.
9. To make a transition.
10. Sports To change from defense to offense or offense to defense.