Transitional
[træn'zɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l;-'sɪʃ-] or [træn'zɪʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to or characterized by transition; 'adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Transitionary.
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Examples
- If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- So that the number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But all of these operations are conceived to be merely transitional; they lack meaning on their own account. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One, namely, the distinctness of specific forms and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We should be extremely cautious in concluding that an organ could not have been formed by transitional gradations of some kind. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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