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Definition of Translation

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n.	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.
	2.	The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.
	3.	That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
	4.	(Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.
	5.	(Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.
	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.

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