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transitiontransition 1. Music a. a movement from one key to another; modulation b. a linking passage between two divisions in a composition; bridge 2. a style of architecture that was used in western Europe in the late 11th and early 12th century, characterized by late Romanesque forms combined with early Gothic details 3. Physics a. any change that results in a change of physical properties of a substance or system, such as a change of phase or molecular structure b. a change in the configuration of an atomic nucleus, involving either a change in energy level resulting from the emission of a gamma-ray photon or a transformation to another element or isotope 4. a sentence, passage, etc., that connects a topic to one that follows or that links sections of a written work How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But, though so little had seemed to happen, and though our walking record was shamefully modest, yet, imperceptible as the transition had been, we were, quite insensibly indeed, and unacknowledged, in a very different relation to each other than when we had started out from the Morning Star. The transition had been so sudden and so unexpected that it left me for a moment forgetful of aught else than my strange metamorphosis. There was no sensible transition from one state of mind to the other. |
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