transition English · revision 5166

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=mid-15th century|origins=la transitio}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /trænˈzɪʃ.ən/, /trɑːnˈzɪʃ.ən/, /trænˈsɪʃ.ən/, US /trænˈzɪʃ.ən/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|transicion]], from [[la|trānsitiō|t=a going across]] (perhaps through French),^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) a noun of action from the past participle stem of trānsīre “to go across”.^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) It is related to [[transient]], [[transit]] and [[transitive]].^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In grammar, the relation between a verb and its object: the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The general sense, a passage from one condition to another, is from 1551 in the OED and MWU, the 1550s in Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)^(Etymonline) A passage in speech or writing from one subject to another is from 1592,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and a modulation in music from 1667.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) In architecture, a style between an earlier and a later one is from 1835,^(OED 1989) and in physics a change of state of an atom or electron from 1913.^(OED 1989) The verb, to make or undergo a transition, is from 1975 in the OED, 1946 in MWU, and is chiefly North American.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)^(COED 2004) Collins records the sense “the process of changing gender”.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * mid-15th century – in grammar.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1551 – a change of condition.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)

+ * 1592 – a change of subject.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1667 – in music.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1913 – in physics.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1946 – verb.^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The process of changing from one state or form to another.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The period during which such a change happens.^(Collins 2023)

+ # A word, phrase or passage linking two parts of a speech or text.^(AHD)

+ # ''(music)'' A brief [[modulation]] from one key to another.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The process by which a person changes gender.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(chiefly North American)'' To undergo or cause to undergo a transition.^(COED 2004)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[transitional]]

+ * [[transitionally]]

+ * [[transit]]

+ * [[transition temperature]]

+ * [[transition element]]

+ * [[transition metal]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[transient]]

+ * [[transitive]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}