From HomoExcelsior

1. The act or process of translating, especially from one language into another. 2. The state of being translated. 3. A translated version of a text. 4. Motion of a body in which every point of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point of the body; nonrotational displacement. 5. The process by which messenger RNA directs the amino acid sequence of a growing polypeptide during protein synthesis.

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