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TWL/NWL (Scrabble US/CA/TH)
SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK / ALL)
ENABLE (Words with Friends)

Meaning of translation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  translation
      n 1: a written communication in a second language having the
           same meaning as the written communication in a first
           language [syn: {translation}, {interlingual rendition},
           {rendering}, {version}]
      2: a uniform movement without rotation
      3: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a
         photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional
         surface" [syn: {transformation}, {translation}]
      4: (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
      5: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in
         messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at
         a ribosome in the cytoplasm
      6: rewording something in less technical terminology
      7: the act of uniform movement [syn: {translation},
         {displacement}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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