Definition of Transitional

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characterized by transition. "Adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood"

Partainyms: Transition

Definition of Transitional

1. a. Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.

Definition of Transitional

1. Adjective. of, or relating to a transition ¹

2. Adjective. temporary; pending the implementation of something new ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transitional

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Transitional

1. Relating to or marked by a transition; transitory. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transitional

transition function
transition functions
transition matrix
transition metal
transition metals
transition mutation
transition point
transition points
transition probability model
transition state
transition state intermediate
transition temperature
transition town
transition zone
transitional (current term)
transitional cell
transitional cell carcinoma
transitional cell papilloma
transitional convolution
transitional denture
transitional element
transitional endoplasmic reticulum
transitional epithelium
transitional gyrus
transitional leukocyte
transitional zone
transitionally
transitionary
transitioned

Literary usage of Transitional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"transitional TYPES. In the list of types given above, as well as in the descriptions which follow, there will be noticed a considerable number of types ..."

2. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"Difficulties of the theory of descent with modification—Absence or rarity of transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life— Diversified ..."

3. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (1878)
"Difficulties of ihe theory of descent with modification — Absence or rarity of transitional varieties — Transitions in habits of life — Diversified habits ..."

4. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"... transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life—Diversified habits in the same species—Species with habits widely different from those of their ..."

5. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"This province had its share of the Cistercian transitional monasteries, especially those of Poblet and Santa Creus, and also of the transitional cathedrals, ..."

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