Trans Definition

trănz
adjective
Transgender.
American Heritage Medicine

(chemistry) Describing a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.

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(cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
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Alternative form of trans.

Wiktionary
abbreviation
Transaction(s)
Webster's New World
Transitive.
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Translated.
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Translation.
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Translator.
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prefix
Across; on the other side; beyond.
Transpolar.
American Heritage
Through.
Transcontinental.
American Heritage
Change; transfer.
Transliterate.
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Having a pair of identical atoms on opposite sides of two atoms linked by a double bond. Used of a geometric isomer.
Trans-butene.
American Heritage
affix
On the other side of, to the other side of, over, across, through.
Transatlantic, transpierce.
Webster's New World
So as to change thoroughly.
Transliterate.
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Above and beyond; transcending.
Transonic.
Webster's New World
Designating an isomer having certain atoms or groups on opposite sides of a given plane in the molecule (in chemical names, usually printed in italic type and hyphenated and disregarded in alphabetization)
Trans-butene.
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Designating the elements beyond (a given element) in the periodic table.
Transuranium.
Webster's New World
noun

Abbreviation of transaction.

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Origin of Trans

  • L trans- (contracted to tra- before d-, m-, n-, l-, v-, j-) < trans, across, over, orig., prob. prp. of *trare, to pass, seen in intrare, extrare < IE base *ter-, to go, over, beyond > through

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • From Latin trāns (“on the other side of"). The gender-related sense is a clipping of transsexual or of transgender (from Latin trāns).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin trāns- from trāns across, beyond, through terə-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • trans + *, as used as a wildcard in programming.

    From Wiktionary

  • Short for transgender transsexual

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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