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How to pronounce translation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms interlingual rendition, rendering, version
Type of written account, written record
Has types retroversion, pony, caption, crib, trot, supertitle, subtitle, surtitle, mistranslation
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Synonyms transformation
Type of change of integrity
Has types permutation, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transmogrification, revision, alteration
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a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface.
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Synonyms displacement
Type of move, motion, movement
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Type of travel, change of location
Has types displacement, shift
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Type of organic process, biological process
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Type of transformation
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Type of paraphrasis, paraphrase

Examples of translation

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Talking up the All Blacks could stir the French if the translation gets through.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Instead, it provides tools for the translation from one set of terms to another.
From the economist.com
It will not be the first time the Globe has welcomed Shakespeare in translation.
From the thenewstribune.com
When an English translation is ready, it will appear on their English site here.
From the theatlantic.com
Many tech bloggers think Facebook's method of human translation seems promising.
From the cnn.com
It's in Matthew 25, reproduced below in Hitchens'beloved King James translation.
From the douthat.blogs.nytimes.com
I know nothing of Bulgakov but there are all his works in translation on Amazon.
From the economist.com
This is a translation of the paper by Milankovitch in Astronomische Nachrichten.
From the en.wikipedia.org
You don't get that explanation by simply reading a translation of a translation.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • A written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
  • A uniform movement without rotation
  • Transformation: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"
  • (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
  • (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
  • Rewording something in less technical terminology
  • Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. ...
  • In proof theory, a discipline within mathematical logic, double-negation translation, sometimes called negative translation, is a general approach for embedding classical logic into intuitionistic logic, typically by translating formulas to formulas which are classically equivalent but intuitionistically inequivalent...
  • Translation is the technical term when a Bishop is transferred from one diocese to another.