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trans.

trans. is the abbreviation of translated.

trans. is the abbreviation of translator.

trans. is the abbreviation of translation.

trans. is the abbreviation of transitive.

Meaning of translator

Noun

translator (plural translators)

  1. A person or thing that translates various forms of text.
  2. (proscribed, sometimes, inexact) Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech.
    • "You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked.
      Premier Chou didn't wait for the translator to finish. "Never, never, never," he replied in perfect English.1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 95
    Synonyms:
    interpreter
  3. (figuratively) A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium.
    • Mr. C. Blair Leighton... lithographer... was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process.1855 June, Gentleman's Magazine, number 657, page 1
  4. (historical) A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
  5. (US) A relay station that retransmits incoming television signals after automatically adjusting their frequency to avoid interference.
  6. A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.

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Meaning of translation

Noun

translation (countable and uncountable, plural translations)

  1. The conversion of text from one language to another.
    • This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.
  2. The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
  3. The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
  4. A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
  5. A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
  6. The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.

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Questions about trans.

What is trans. the abbreviation of?
Trans. is the abbreviation of translated.

Words near trans. in the dictionary

  1. trans-Tasman
  2. trans-testicle
  3. trans-testicles
  4. trans-woman
  5. trans-women
  6. trans.
  7. transabdominal
  8. transabdominally
  9. transability
  10. transabled
  11. transableism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trans. (page history and authors); translator (page history and authors); translation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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