Definition for

transition


noun – Passage from one place, state, or act to another; change: as, a sudden transition from anger to mirth; a state of transition.

noun – In rhetoric, a passing from one subject to another.

noun – In music, same (usually) as modulation.

noun – In geology, the English form of the name (used attributively or as an adjective) given by Werner to certain strata which he investigated in northern Germany, and found to have, to a certain extent, the mineral character of the socalled primitive rocks, while also exhibiting indications of a mechanical origin, and even containing occasional fossils, thus indicating a transition or passage from primary to secondary.

noun – In art hist., an epoch or stage of change from one style or state of development in art to the next succeeding; especially, in Greek art, the stage of change from the archaic to the bloom of art, and in medieval art, that from the round-arched or Romanesque to the Pointed style.

noun – Passage from one place or state to another; charge.

noun – A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

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