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• n  a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
• n  a uniform movement without rotation
• n  the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
  a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface
• n  (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same
• n  (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
• n  rewording something in less technical terminology
• n  the act of uniform movement

• IT is often said that good translations are like women: If I faithful they are not beautiful, if beautiful they are not faithful.
• After more negotiations Professor Bongiorno's draft was turned over to Translator Livingston, and five years later a faithful translation of the text, of the footnotes that made up .
• A third translation is under way by a professor at Beijing Normal University.

• interlingual rendition
• rendering
• version
• transformation
• displacement

News & Articles

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• Research and Markets: Global Machine Translation Market Report - Forecast to 2016
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Machine Translation Market 2012-2016" report to th
  June 21, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• New ad agency tapped for Bud Light
  Translation, the brand's lead agency since August, will continue to handle some work for Bud Light extensions. 
  June 20, 2013 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Mapping translation sites in the human genome
  Scientists have produced the first genome-wide investigation of cap-independent translation, identifying thousands of mRNA sequences that act as Translation Enhancing Elements, which are RNA sequences upstream of the coding region that help recruit the ribosome to the translation start site.
  June 17, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Hamid Karzai in Reuters South Africa
  We understand the concerns of our allies in the international community. Those concerns may be out of an inappropriate or not so good translation of the law or a misinterpretation of this,Karzai told reporters.
• Bryce Dallas Howard in KMGH Denver
  I'm such of a big fan of 'Twilight,'Howard said in a recent @ The Movies interview. "I actually read all the books before I had even seen the first film, so I understand the passion that we feel for the cinematic translation of these...
• David Cronenberg in CNN International
  It is in some ways a translation of the movie to the stage,Cronenberg said. "But it's its own creature."