transition

  1. Noun.  the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
  2. Noun.  a word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
  3. Noun.  (music) a brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
  4. Noun.  (genetics) a point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
  5. Noun.  (''some sports'') a change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
  6. Noun.  (medicine) the onset of the final stage of childbirth.
  7. Verb.  (intransitive, chiefly) To make a transition.

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