the act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of enoch; the translation of a bishop.-the act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.-that which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the scriptures.-a transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.-transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.-motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.