Translation, from the Latin for "carry across", is the conversion of text from one language to another.

Translation may also refer to:

Science

  • Translation studies, the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization
  • Translation (biology), part of the biological process of protein biosynthesis from messenger RNA
  • Frequency translation, converting a radio signal from one frequency to another by mixing the input signal with a second signal
  • Broadcast translator, rebroadcasting a radio signal at a different frequency
  • Translation (physics), movement that changes the position of an object, moving every point the same distance in the same direction, without rotation, reflection or change in size
  • Translation operator, an alternative name for the displacement operator in quantum optics

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  • Translational research
  • Translation (sociology)

Mathematics

  • Translation (geometry), moving points the same distance in the same direction
  • Shift operator, a translation within the real line
  • Translation (group theory), the operation of multiplying by a group element

Computing

  • Address translation
  • Port address translation, allows a single public IP address to be used by many hosts on a private network
  • Network address translation, transceiving network traffic through a router by re-writing the source and/or destination IP addresses
  • Virtual-to-physical address translation
  • Program transformation
  • The translation phase of a compiler (or, by extension, the entire process of compilation)
  • Translate Toolkit, freeware localization toolkit
  • Translator (computing), multiple meanings
  • Bing Translator, online machine translation service in Bing.com
  • Google Translate, online machine translation service in Google
  • Translate (Apple), a translation app developed by Apple for their iOS and iPadOS devices

Literature and entertainment

  • Translations (play), 1980 play by Brian Friel
  • "...In Translation", seventeenth episode of the first season of Lost
  • Translate (Sexy Sadie album), 2006 album by Sexy Sadie
  • Translation (album), 2020 album by Black Eyed Peas
  • Translate (Luke Abbott album), 2020 album by Luke Abbott
  • The Translation (short story), 1977 short story by Joyce Carol Oates

Religion

  • Translation (relic), the removal of holy objects from one locality to another
  • Translation (ecclesiastical), the transfer of a bishop from one diocese or episcopal see to another
  • Translation (Mormonism), in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the change of a person from mortality to immortality without death

See also

  • Translator (disambiguation)
  • Conversion (disambiguation)
  • Interpretation (disambiguation)
  • Transformation (disambiguation)