Transition

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

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 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 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).

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

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

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 journalism transitions are words, phrases, or whole paragraphs that hold a story together from subject to subject.

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.

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