Synonyms for transition

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tran-zish-uhn, -sish-

Phonetic Transcription : trænˈzɪʃ ən, -ˈsɪʃ-

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Définition of transition

Origin : 1550s, from Latin transitionem (nominative transitio) "a going across or over," noun of action from past participle stem of transire "go or cross over" (see transient).

noun change, often major

Example sentences :

From one enemy of Robert the transition is brief and natural to another.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

For him these years were a period of mental growth, of transition, of development.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

This transition of thought from the cause to the effect proceeds not from reason.
Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume

Such measures are good as makeshifts in a period of transition.
Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel

Let there be nothing in the state of transition worse than simple imprisonment.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

I want to get the transition over now, though it is rather an abrupt one.
Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill

We are not the end, we are but a transition, a beginning of something else.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

In my own country the progress of development has reached a point of transition.
Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root

But he has hitherto been unable to make the transition from mathematics to metaphysics.
Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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