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What does translation mean?

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  1. (uncountable) The act or (countable) an act of translating, in its various senses:
    1. The conversion of text from one language to another.
    2. (translation studies) The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
    3. The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
    4. (physics) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
    5. (mathematics) A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
    6. (genetics) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
    7. (physics) A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
    8. The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
  2. (countable) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
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Its resulting product, statistical machine translation software, provides the highest quality output to date from machine translation.
I was also interested in grammar, linguistics and machine translation and before long I marvelled at the magnificent creation of Panini.
Other applications of semantics include machine translation and direct generation of language by computers.
From the start, we had to be in agreement, for example, on the translation of street names, proper names, nicknames.
The detector bundles were mounted in fiber optic positioners attached to translation stages for accurate placement.
In the process of translation and adaptation, Verdi's opera took on qualities of its own.

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