Transition or transitional may refer to:

Mathematics, science, and technology

Biology

  • Transition (genetics), a point mutation that changes a purine nucleotide to another purine (A ↔ G) or a pyrimidine nucleotide to another pyrimidine (C ↔ T)
  • Transitional fossil, any fossilized remains of a lifeform that exhibits the characteristics of two distinct taxonomic groups
  • A phase during childbirth contractions during which the cervix completes its dilation

Gender and sex

  • Gender transitioning, the process of changing one's gender presentation to accord with one's internal sense of one's gender – the idea of what it means to be a man or woman
  • Sex reassignment therapy, the physical aspect of a gender transition

Physics

Chemistry

  • Transition metal, either an element whose atom has an incomplete d sub-shell, or any element in the d-block of the periodic table
  • Transition state, of a chemical reaction is a particular configuration along the reaction coordinate
  • SRM transition, the precursor and product ion pair in Selected reaction monitoring (SRM) in analytical chemistry

Computing

Other uses in technology

Government and politics

Arts and entertainment

Literature

  • Transition (fiction), a narrative element or general aspects of writing style that signal changes in a story
  • Transition (linguistics), a certain word, expression, or other device that gives text or speech greater cohesion by making it more explicit

Works

Film, radio, and television

Music

Albums

Songs

Other arts

Sport

Other uses

See also

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