TRANSITION

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. There is no death, what seems so is transition. Longfellow.

2.
n.

A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

3.
n.

A passing from one subject to another. [He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes. Milton.

4.
n.

Change from one form to another.