transition

Forms

1.The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.
2.A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
3.A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
4.A change of key.

1.To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- Eric told me that after he transitioned, he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.
- After he transitioned, he changed jobs so he could go stealth, hoping that no one would discover he was once a woman.
- Weimar Berlin. The first known case of a British person medically transitioning from one gender to another with the assistance of hormones and surgeries was Michael Dillon, a trans man (or 'female-to-male transsexual').
2.To make a transition.
3.To bring through a transition; to change.
- The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.

Uncommon· #2313

From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio.

By surface analysis, transit + -ion.