Translation

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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.

2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

4. A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

5. Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker.

6. Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.