transitions

Noun

transition (countable and uncountable, plural transitions)

1. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
   • All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
2. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
   • Holonym: metadiscourse
3. A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
4. A change of key.
5. A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
6. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.

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