<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.</li><li>A version of such a rendering: a new translation of Plato.</li><li>Change or conversion to another form, appearance, etc.; transformation: a swift translation of thought into action.</li><li>The act or process of translating.</li><li>The state of being translated.</li></ul><p><strong>Mechanics</strong></p><ul><li>Motion in which all particles of a body move with the same velocity along parallel paths.</li></ul><p><strong>Telegraphy</strong></p><ul><li>The retransmitting or forwarding of a message, as by relay.</li></ul><p><strong>Mathematics</strong></p><ul><li>A function obtained from a given function by adding the same constant to each value of the variable of the given function and moving the graph of the function a constant distance to the right or left.</li><li>A transformation in which every point of a geometric figure is moved the same distance in the same direction.</li></ul><p><strong>Genetics</strong></p><ul><li>The process by which a messenger RNA molecule specifies the linear sequence of amino acids on a ribosome for protein synthesis.</li></ul><p><strong>Compare</strong></p><ul><li>Genetic code.</li></ul>