translation (n.)

1.the act of uniform movement

2.the act of changing in form or shape or appearance"a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"

3.rewording something in less technical terminology

4.a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

5.a uniform movement without rotation

6.(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

7.(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