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Princeton's WordNet

  1. transitionaladjective

    of or relating to or characterized by transition

    "adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood"

Wiktionary

  1. transitionaladjective

    of, or relating to a transition

  2. transitionaladjective

    temporary; pending the implementation of something new

    XHTML 1.0 Transitional

  3. Etymology: From transitition (from transitio 'transition', from transitus, the past participle of transire 'to transit', itself from trans- 'across' + ire 'to go, pass') + -al

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  1. transitional

    Transitional refers to the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. It often involves an evolution, shift, or transformation from one stage, form, activity, or method to another. This term can be used in various contexts such as design, politics, biology, and more.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Transitionaladjective

    of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of transitional in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of transitional in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of transitional in a Sentence

  1. Jonathan Geisler:

    The new fossil species these authors describe show a transitional state between other fossil Kogiids and the two living species, its skull is like those of the living species except that it has a longer snout that is not downturned.

  2. Michael Nathanson:

    We're in a bit of a transitional period where the contracts that were struck did not anticipate this type of change in strategy, i would think going forward from this point on every new contract will have to include language that figures out a way to compensate the talent for the potential of a direct-to-video, a direct-to-streaming watch.

  3. Dirley Cortés:

    We're discovering many new species there that are helping us understand the evolution of marine ecosystems during a transitional time.

  4. Seyoum Mesfin:

    The mediation decided to prepare a compromise document which we think and believe that all the parties can live with and continue into the establishment of the transitional government of national unity for 30 months.

  5. Alexandria Carr:

    The focus (for banks) for the immediate future should be on negotiating transitional provisions.

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