Bible Dictionaries

Webster's Dictionary

Translation

(1):

(n.) 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):

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

(3):

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

(4):

(n.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.

(5):

(n.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

(6):

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