An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Mechanics: A motion of a rigid body characterized by parallel paths of all particles. Every point of the body in translation has the same velocity and acceleration at any particular instant. The translation motion may be rectilinear or curvilinear.
   

2. Math.: A transformation which moves all points on a plane through the same distance in the same direction. The object and its image are congruent. Also a function obtained from a given function by adding the same constant to the value of each of its variables.
   

3. A rendering from one language into another; a version of such a rendering.

Etymology (EN): Verbal noun of → translate.

Etymology (PE): Tarâjâyeš, verbal noun of tarâjâyidan, tarâzabâneš, verbal noun of tarâzabânidan, → translate.