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translational, a.|trɑːnsˈleɪʃənəl, træns-, -nz-|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to translation. a. Belonging to, or consisting in, translation from one language into another.
1813E. Henderson Let. in Life (1859) 119 A translational exhibition of a certain notable portion of the Old Testament. 1869Contemp. Rev. Feb. 134 Mr. Paley's editorial and translational labours. 1907Salmon Hum. Element in Gosp. 244 Many of the variations in our Greek Gospels are simply translational.
b. Physics. Consisting in onward motion, as distinct from rotation, vibration, oscillation, etc.
1867Thomson & Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. §107 Imagine this circle to be the inner edge of a fixed ring in space (directionally fixed, that is to say, but having the same translational motion as the earth's centre). 1898Sir W. Crookes Addr. Brit. Assoc. 25 The total energy of both the translational and internal motions of the molecules locked up in quiescent air at ordinary pressure and temperature is about 140,000 foot-pounds in each cubic yard of air.
Hence transˈlationally adv., (a) as regards language translation; (b) as regards, or by means of, translational motion.
1916M. A. S. Riach Air-Screws i. 8 The depth of the cylinder will then represent the distance advanced through translationally by the point, and therefore by the whole air-screw, at each revolution. 1923C. D. Broad Sci. Thought xi. 433 A rotating physical object which is translationally at rest. 1959Archivum Linguisticum XI. 152 It is..no use trying..to measure range of content as the ‘number of meanings’..of translationally equivalent words. 1978J. Dunn in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 172 A translationally adequate science of human meanings must in principle be pragmatically accessible. 1981C. H. Llewellyn-Smith in J. H. Mulvey Nature of Matter iii. 55 If momentum is conserved then the underlying laws must necessarily be translationally invariant. |