transition

Transition is a passing from one form or stage to the next.

(noun)

An example of transition is what happens between active labor and a baby being born.

The definition of a transition is a word or group of words that relate something that came before to what comes after.

(noun)

An example of transition is using the word however in a sentence.

Transition means to change from one thing to another.

(verb)

An example of transition is a musician becoming an actor.

See transition in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

1. a passing from one condition, form, stage, activity, place, etc. to another
2. the period of such passing
a word, phrase, sentence, or group of sentences that relates a preceding topic to a succeeding one or that smoothly connects parts of a speech or piece of writing
Music
1. a shifting from one key to another; modulation; esp., a brief or passing modulation
2. an abrupt change into a remote key
3. a passage connecting two sections of a composition

Origin: L transitio < transitus: see transit

intransitive verb

to make or undergo a transition

Related Forms:

See transition in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another.
a. Passage from one subject to another in discourse.
b. A word, phrase, sentence, or series of sentences connecting one part of a discourse to another.
Music
a. A modulation, especially a brief one.
b. A passage connecting two themes or sections.
Genetics A point mutation in which a pyrimidine is replaced by another pyrimidine, or a purine is replaced by another purine.
Sports The process of changing from defense to offense or offense to defense, as in basketball or hockey.
A period during childbirth that precedes the expulsive phase of labor, characterized by strong uterine contractions and nearly complete cervical dilation.