Transition
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- In telecommunication, a transition is the change from one signal state to another signal state.
- In music a transition is a change from one unit, section, parameter, or element or set of parameters or elements, to another. Transitions may be smooth and connected, or disjointed and contrasting.
- In television and film a transition is a change from one scene to another.
- In politics, transition is change from one political system to another, for example from dictatorship to democracy.
- In genetics, a transition is a mutation changing a purine to another purine nucleotide (A <-> G) or a pyrimidine to another pyrimidine nucleotide (C <-> T). See also transversion.
- In physics, a transition is a change from one physical state to another. A transition cannot occur in any situation but are governed by selection rule.
- Transitioning is the process of moving from one gender role to another.
- transition was a Paris-based literary journal of the 1920s and 1930s.
- In chemistry, a transition state describes how the atoms/molecules are organised while changing from a reactant to a product, at the highest energy (least stable) point along the reaction coordinate.
- In organizational development, a transition is the interval between two states, the current state and the desired state, in a planned change process.
- In journalism transitions are words, phrases, or whole paragraphs that hold a story together from subject to subject.
- In the branch of Computer science known as Automata theory, a transition refers to an entity that modifies a system's state. A Finite state machine denotes its transitions as arcs, while Petri nets denote theirs as elements of a special node type.