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translational

translational

3 7.7
Movement in which all parts move the same distance in the same direction without turning
  • adjective
  • /trænˈsleɪʃənl/
  • Specialized
: translacional
  • The dancers synchronized their steps to create a beautiful display of translational movement across the stage.
  • translational modification
  • translational instability
  • translational research

So certainly there is the translational and the rotational degrees of freedom.

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Examples

  • The development of translational understanding through the teaching experience is derived from several areas of the students' work.

    Academic text (2006)

  • By reducing the number of translational stages from three to two, cost savings were realized.

    Academic text (1992)

  • I was particularly interested in the translational apparatus because that is absolutely essential to the cell.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Eligible work may be in basic, applied, or translational biomedical science.

    Academic text (2016)

  • So as we saw, these are the two equations, the translational motion and the rotational motion.

  • The bottom of the column was hinged to the strong deck of the testing frame with a translational restraint.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Figure 13 shows the comparison of the translational and rotational advection velocities of the two aforementioned cases.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The translational movement of the car made it possible to reach the destination quickly.

  • In physics, translational motion occurs when an object moves along a straight path without any rotation.

Antonyms

rotational
10 4.7

Of something that turns around an invisible line, like a spinning wheel or fan

nontranslational
  • Specialized
8.9

Movement that turns or spins as well as moves straight

How Translational

translational
  • Specialized
3 7.7
nontranslational
  • Specialized
8.9

Surface Forms

translational positive

Morphology

translational = translation (opaque) = translate + ion + al

The word is formally built from translation plus -al, but the technical physics meaning is a specialized extension that is not obvious from the base word alone.

Etymology

The word translational comes from the prefix trans- meaning 'across' and the same root found in translate and transfer, which mean 'carry across' or move something to a new place. So translational describes movement that carries every part the same distance 'across' space, without turning.