Preposition: from

• childhood: Gazzaniga: Does it really matter what we are like during transition from childhood to adulthood?

Converse of object

• ease: No doubt this helps the baby ease the transition to life outside the womb.

• undergo: In order for the carbamate to reform, the enzyme must undergo transition to the open conformation.

• facilitate: These are designed to facilitate the transition of applicants to university.

• smooth: For the morphing sequence, five prosthetic models were photographed with the transitions smoothed using Elastic Reality software.

Adjective modifier

• smooth: A smooth transition from a project to routine practice should be the objective.

• seamless: This would allow a seamless transition from interior to exterior.

• gradual: There is a gradual transition from slow to fast.

• orderly: Segal will remain at the company until its 4 May AGM in order to assist in an orderly transition.

• demographic: Demographic transition it was about the first thing we learned at uni.

• abrupt: Figure 2. Multiple states and abrupt transitions at critical points The present THC is assumed to be in the upper, strong overturning branch.

Modifies a noun

• metal: Transition metal ions are often at the ' heart ' of many biological catalysts.

• probability: In a formal argument we claim the transition probability of OK to ERROR is zero.

• matrix: Each of these state transitions has a probability provided by the state transition matrix.

• temperature: The conditioning temperature should not exceed the glass transition temperature of the resin system.

• period: There will be a two year transition period where both schemes will run concurrently.

• ion: Transition metal ions are often at the ' heart ' of many biological catalysts.

Noun used with modifier

• phase: The phase transition is accompanied by a 9.8 % volume contraction.

• metal-insulator: Atomic scale characterisation of metal-insulator phase transitions in strongly correlated electron systems.

• permeability: Biochem J, 363, 29-36 4. Crompton M ( 1999 ) The mitochondrial permeability transition pore and its role in cell death.