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transfer

transfer

6 3.9
Using a skill learned in one situation in another similar situation
  • noun
  • /ˈtrænsfɜr/
  • Specialized
translation icon : transferencia de aprendizaje
  • The students demonstrated impressive transfer of skills during the project, adapting their writing techniques to create reports.
  • transfer of learning
  • transfer of skills
  • knowledge transfer

You might talk about this in terms of what we call transfer from one domain to another.

Examples

  • You might talk about this in terms of what we call transfer from one domain to another.

  • What sales really is is the transfer of emotion.

  • Knowledge transfer... what does the law say about it?

  • School staff agreed that developing a culture of transfer in each school would be a potential solution.

    Academic text (2011)
  • How do we follow up after rehearsal to encourage the transfer of learning?

    Academic text (2011)
  • School staff argued that transfer was a fundamental aspect of learning.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Assumption 4: Transfer of knowledge and skills is a key element of high school education.

    Academic text (2011)
  • What the views of students, teachers, and teacher-librarians were on the transfer of information literacy practices.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Several curriculum-based and transfer measures were administered to test students' ability to represent and solve word problems.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Cummins' hypothesis suggests that underlying language proficiency facilitates the transfer of cognitive and academic literacy-related skills across languages.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

carry-over
vstransfer
  • Specialized
1 5.1

Using skill or knowledge from one situation in another similar situation

is the same meaning but usually written without a hyphen
transfer of training
vstransfer
  • Formal
4.9

Using skills or knowledge learned in one place in another similar situation

is broader, used across many similar situations, not only learning contexts
knowledge transfer
vstransfer
  • Specialized
4.1

Using what one trained model learned to help another model perform better

is similar but applies to people and situations rather than technical models

Compounds

3 4.5

Money the government gives people who need help without goods or services

transfer tax
  • Formal
1 6.3

A charge you pay when property goes from one person to another

1 4.4

Sharing information and skills from one person or group to another

1 4.2

A voluntary change of who owns something that follows the law

transfer agent
  • Specialized
1 7.9

An organization that keeps records of a company's stock owners and handles transfers and cancellations of stock certificates

Paper with a special coating that lets you move a design onto another surface often using heat

transfer RNA
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A small molecule in a cell that carries amino acids to ribosomes to make proteins

A way to share files over a network that lets people download without a password

A fast digital way to send small pieces of data that are the same size, such as voice and video

3.7

A standard way for computers to send files to each other over the internet

knowledge transfer
  • Specialized
4.1

Using what one trained model learned to help another model perform better

A set of rules that lets browsers get web pages from servers

Using skills or knowledge learned in one place in another similar situation

A lab method for making clones by moving a body cell's center into an egg cell without one

How Broad

to generalize
  • US
41 4.2
to project
4 6.1
transfer
  • Specialized
6 3.9
to apply
374 2.8

Surface Forms

transfer singular
transfers plural

Etymology

The word transfer comes from the Latin parts trans- 'across' and ferre 'to carry'. In learning, a transfer is when you 'carry' a skill 'across' from one situation to a similar one.