An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

English-French-Persian

فرهنگ ریشه‌شناختی اخترشناسی-اخترفیزیک



transition
  گذرش  
gozareš
Fr.: transition  
  1. Passage from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another.

  2. A change between phases such as solid to liquid or liquid to gas.

  3. A change in the → energy level or state of an atom or nucleus. → atomic transition, → bound-bound transition, → bound-free transition, → cascade transition, → discrete transition, → forbidden transition, → hyperfine transition, → nuclear transition, → permitted transition, → phase transition, → quark-hadron phase transition, → radiative transition, → rotational transition, → semi-forbidden transition, → transition disk, → transition function, → transition probability, → vibrational transition.

Etymology (EN): From L. transitionem (nominative transition) “a going across or over,” noun of action from transire “go or cross over,” from → trans- “across” + ire “to go.”

Etymology (PE): Gozareš, verbal noun of gozaštan “to transit, pass,” → transit, + -eš, → -tion.