TRANSITION

• In music a transition is a change from one unit, section, parameter, or element or set of parameters or elements, to another. Transitions may be smooth and connected, or disjointed and contrasting.

• In journalism and other writing, a transition is a word or phrase that connects one concrete detail to another in a paragraph and helps each piece of writing to flow smoothly.

• In television and film a transition is a change from one scene to another.

• In politics, transition can be two things:
  • The change from one political system to another, for example from dictatorship to democracy.
  • The period during which a lame duck holder of a political office hands power over to his or her successor.

• In childbirth, transition is a short but intense phase of labor. During the transition phase, the cervix completes its dialation in preparation for the birth.

• In genetics, a transition is a mutation changing a purine to another purine nucleotide (A <-> G) or a pyrimidine to another pyrimidine nucleotide (C <-> T).

• In physics, a transition is a change from one physical state to another. Transitions usually cannot occur in any situation, but are governed by some physical laws or rules (see selection rule, for instance).

• In chemistry, a transition state describes how the atoms/molecules are organised while changing from a reactant to a product, at the highest energy (least stable) point along the reaction coordinate.

• In organizational development, a transition is the interval between two states, the current state and the desired state, in a planned change process.

• In telecommunication, a transition is the change from one signal state to another signal state.

• In the branch of Computer science known as Automata theory, a transition refers to an entity that modifies a system's state. A Finite state machine denotes its transitions as arcs, while Petri nets denote theirs as elements of a special node type.

• In computing, transition is one of the phases of the RUP project lifecycle.

• Transitioning is the process of moving from one gender role to another.

• transition was a Paris-based literary journal of the 1920s and 1930s.

• Transition Magazine is a a US-based quarterly magazine.

• Transition Program is a high school program for gifted adolescents based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

• In grappling, a transition is a move from one grappling hold to another.

• In Global History 'Transition' is a key concept in discussions about how 'modernity' or modern-day 'world capitalism' came into being. These discussions are often referred to as the debates on the 'transition from feudalism to capitalism' and evoked a broad spectrum of theoretical and methodological approaches as well as a multitude of answers to the main question: 'which of the social forces, economic factors or cultural phenomena should be given the highest priority in explaining the genesis of today's society?' One of the main threads of these discussions is represented by interpretations using a Marxist point of view. See Karl Marx, Maurice Dobb, Paul Sweezy, Robert Brenner, Immanuel Wallerstein, Karl Polanyi, Arnold Toynbee and others.

• A rising pop-punk band from Wexford, Pennsylvania. Currently touring with MXPX.

• In optics, Transitions is a brand of photochromic lenses.

• In the novel series Axis of Time, the Transition is the name of the event that sends the taskforce into another time in another universe

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