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 tran·si·tion /træn(t)ˈsɪʃən, trænˈzɪ, ||træn(t)ˈsɪʒən/
 轉變,轉換,躍遷,過渡時期,變調

 tran·si·tion =/træn(t)sˈɪʃən, trænz, <ɪ>ʧɪɛflj ɑrɪtɪʃ træn(t)sˈɪʒ-/= 名詞
 躍遷,過渡,轉變,臨界

 transition
 轉移

 transition
 變遷 過渡

 Tran·si·tion n.
 1. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
    There is no death, what seems so is transition.   --Longfellow.
 2. Mus. A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.
 3. Rhet. A passing from one subject to another.
    [He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes.   --Milton.
 4. Biol. Change from one form to another.
 Note: ☞ This word is sometimes pronounced but according to Walker, Smart, and most other authorities, the customary and preferable pronunciation is although this latter mode violates analogy. Other authorities say
 Transition rocks Geol., a term formerly applied to the lowest uncrystalline stratified rocks (graywacke) supposed to contain no fossils, and so called because thought to have been formed when the earth was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state.
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 transition
      n 1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn:
            passage]
      2: an event that results in a transformation [syn: conversion,
          changeover]
      3: a change from one place or state or subject or stage to
         another
      4: a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: modulation]
      5: a passage that connects a topic to one that follows