translationaladj.

c1815 E. Henderson Let. in T. S. Henderson Mem. Rev. E. Henderson (1859) iii. 119 A translational exhibition of a certain notable portion of the Old Testament.

1869 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 134 Mr. Paley's editorial and translational labours.

1907 G. Salmon Human Elem. in Gospels 244 Many of the variations in our Greek Gospels are simply translational.

1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 300 The section on translational methods..lists and summarizes thirty well-known differences between literal and idiomatic translation.

2017 Mod. Lang. Rev. 112 598 What makes Beckett an unusual case from a translational perspective is that many of his works composed in French already contain Irish remainders in the French originals.

1867 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. 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).

1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) iii. 36 We differentiate between the ‘rest mass’ and the ‘translational mass’ of β-particles, i.e. the mass of the particle in motion.

1976 J. Lukasiewicz Railway Game 177 The air, space and underwater transportation modes exhibit three translational degrees of freedom: an aircraft, a spacecraft or a submarine can move forward and sideways as well as in altitude or depth.

2017 telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 11 Jan. During the melting, the ice disks undergo translational and rotational motions.

1963 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 28 161/1 A translational mechanism from the four unit language of the nucleic acids to the twenty element parlance of the proteins.

1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 6188/2 The ribosome pauses at the translational stop codon long enough for the polymerase to transcribe the terminator region.

1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 2778/2 This observation suggests that the PRP6 and PRP9 genes may have a common regulation for transcriptional and/or translational expression.

2014 E. Jan Protein Transl. i. 2 Translational control of specific mRNAs allows the cell to regulate protein expression rapidly.

1993 Lancet 30 Oct. 1092/1 A unique convergence of laboratory and clinical knowledge, making colorectal cancer now perhaps one of the best models of ‘translational science’.

1999 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. b4/6 Instead of treating patients at the end of the disease process with, say, cardiac bypass surgery, translational medicine emphasizes basic science.

2008 New Yorker 28 Jan. 43/1 A collaboration between the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, which is affiliated with M.I.T. and Harvard, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

2012 N. N. Taleb Antifragile iv. xiii. 191 Medical researchers call such lag the ‘translational gap’, the time difference between formal discovery and first implementation.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 808/2 In every other case part of the translational energy which the bodies have before collision is left in the shape of vibrations after collision, and the translational energy after collision is accordingly less than before collision.

1938 J.-B. O. Sneeden Introd. Internal Combustion Engin. (new ed.) ii. 24 The internal energy is made up of (i) the translational energy of the molecule as a whole, (ii) the rotational energy of the atomic system about the axes XX and YY, and the negligible energy of rotation about the third axis ZZ.

1997 L. M. Harwood & T. D. W. Claridge Introd. Org. Spectroscopy vi. 73 This type of spectrometer works on the principle that all singly charged species subjected to the same potential difference will achieve the same translational energy as measured in electron volts.

1933 Proc. London Math. Soc. 35 37 A system of similarly placed β₈'s of 5₂₁, which are likewise equivalent under the translational symmetry of the polytope.

1978 Jrnl. Chem. Physics 68 3999/1 We extend the use of translational symmetry of individual integrals.

2005 M. Livio Equation that couldn't be Solved ii. 41 We can see that a cathedral has bilateral symmetry, that a wallpaper design has translational symmetry, and that a circle has rotational symmetry.

2008 L. M. Lederman & C. T. Hill Symmetry & Beautiful Universe v. 105 Newton's third law..also follows from Noether's theorem—and therefore from translational symmetry of the laws of physics!