translation
    n 1: a written communication in a second language having the
         same meaning as the written communication in a first
         language [syn: translation, interlingual rendition,
         rendering, version]
    2: a uniform movement without rotation
    3: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a
       photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional
       surface" [syn: transformation, translation]
    4: (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
    5: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in
       messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at
       a ribosome in the cytoplasm
    6: rewording something in less technical terminology
    7: the act of uniform movement [syn: translation,
       displacement]

Translation \Trans*la"tion\, n. [F. translation, L. translatio a
   transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf.
   Tralation.]
   1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring;
      removal; also, the state of being translated or removed;
      as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The act of rendering into another language;
      interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is
      difficult.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. That which is obtained by translating something a version;
      as, a translation of the Scriptures.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a
      metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association
      of ideas. --A. Tucker.
      [1913 Webster]

   6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving
      body have at any instant the same velocity and direction
      of motion; -- opposed to rotation.
      [1913 Webster]

TRANSLATION. The copy made in one language of what has been written, or 
spoken in another. 
     2. In pleading, when a libel or an agreement, written in a foreign 
language, must be averred, it is necessary that a translation of it should 
also be given. 
     3. In evidence, when a witness is unable to speak the English language 
so as to convey his ideas, a translation of his testimony must be made. In 
that case, an interpreter should be sworn to translate to him, on oath, the 
questions propounded to him, and to translate to the court and jury his 
answers. 4 Mass. 81; 5 Mass. 219; 2 Caines' Rep. 155; Louis. Code of Pr. 
784, 5. 
     4. It has been determined that a copyright may exist in a translation, 
as a literary work. 3 Ves. & Bea. 77; 2 Meriv. 441, n. 
     5. In the ecclesiastical law, translation denotes the removal from one 
place to another.; as, the bishop was translated from the diocese of A, to 
that of B. In the civil law, translation signifies the transfer of property. 
Clef des Lois Rom. h.t. 
     6. Swinburne applies the term translation to the bestowing of a legacy 
which had been given to one, on another; this is a species of ademption, 
(q.v.) but it differs from it in this, that there may be an ademption 
without a translation, but there can be no translation without an ademption. 
Bac. Ab. Legacies, C. 
     7. By translation is also meant the transfer of property, but in this 
sense it is seldom used. 2 Bl. Com. 294. Vide Interpreter.