Definition of translation

• n. - The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
• n. - The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.
• n. - That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
• n. - A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.
• n. - Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.
• n. - Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.