Translation
Translation is the communication of the semantics, meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The English la ...
, from the Latin for "carry across", is the conversion of text from one language to another.
Science
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Translation studies, the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization
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Translation (biology)
In biology, translation is the process in living Cell (biology), cells in which proteins are produced using RNA molecules as templates. The generated protein is a sequence of amino acids. This sequence is determined by the sequence of nucleotide ...
, part of the biological process of protein biosynthesis from messenger RNA
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Frequency translation, converting a radio signal from one frequency to another by mixing the input signal with a second signal
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Broadcast translator, rebroadcasting a radio signal at a different frequency
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Translation (physics)
In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same distance in a given direction. A translation can also be interpreted as the addition of a constant vector to ever ...
, movement that changes the position of an object, moving every point the same distance in the same direction, without rotation, reflection or change in size
* Translation operator, an alternative name for the
displacement operator in quantum optics
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Translational research
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Translation (sociology)
Mathematics
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Translation (geometry)
In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same Distance geometry, distance in a given direction (geometry), direction. A translation can also be interpreted as the ...
, moving points the same distance in the same direction
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Shift operator, a translation within the real line
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Translation (group theory), the operation of multiplying by a group element
Computing
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Address translation
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Port address translation
Network address translation (NAT) is a method of mapping an IP address space into another by modifying network address information in the IP header of packets while they are in transit across a traffic routing device. The technique was initi ...
, allows a single public IP address to be used by many hosts on a private network
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Network address translation
Network address translation (NAT) is a method of mapping an IP address space into another by modifying network address information in the IP header of packets while they are in transit across a traffic Router (computing), routing device. The te ...
, transceiving network traffic through a router by re-writing the source and/or destination IP addresses
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Virtual-to-physical address translation
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Program transformation
A program transformation is any operation that takes a computer program and generates another program. In many cases the transformed program is required to be semantically equivalent to the original, relative to a particular Formal semantics of p ...
* The translation phase of a compiler (or, by extension, the entire process of compilation)
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Translate Toolkit, freeware localization toolkit
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Translator (computing)
A translator or programming language processor is a computer program that converts the programming instructions written in human convenient form into machine language codes that the computers understand and process. It is a generic term that c ...
, multiple meanings
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Bing Translator, online machine translation service in Bing.com
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Google Translate
Google Translate is a multilingualism, multilingual neural machine translation, neural machine translation service developed by Google to translation, translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a web applic ...
, online machine translation service in Google
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Translate (Apple), a translation app developed by Apple for their iOS and iPadOS devices
Literature and entertainment
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''Translations'' (play), 1980 play by Brian Friel
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...In Translation", seventeenth episode of the first season of ''Lost''
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''Translate'' (Sexy Sadie album), 2006 album by Sexy Sadie
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''Translation'' (album), 2020 album by Black Eyed Peas
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''Translate'' (Luke Abbott album), 2020 album by Luke Abbott
Religion
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Translation (relic), the removal of holy objects from one locality to another
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Translation (ecclesiastical), the transfer of a bishop from one diocese or episcopal see to another
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Translation (Mormonism)
In Mormonism, translation refers to being physically changed by God in Mormonism, God from a mortal human being to an immortal human being. A person that has been translated is referred to as a translated being. According to Mormonism, Enoch (an ...
, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the change of a person from mortality to immortality without death
See also
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Translator (disambiguation)
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Conversion (disambiguation)
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Interpretation (disambiguation)
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Transformation (disambiguation)
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