Chinese Definition–noun | 1. | the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin. | | 2. | a group of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, including standard Chinese and most of the ot
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her languages of China. Abbreviation: Chin., Chin | | 3. | any of the Chinese languages, which vary among themselves to the point of mutual unintelligibility. | | 4. | a native or descendant of a native of China. | –adjective | 5. | of or pertaining to China, its inhabitants, or one of their languages. | | 6. | noting or pertaining to the partly logographic, partly phonetic script used for the writing of Chinese, Japanese, and other languages, consisting of thousands of brushstroke characters written in vertical columns from right to left. | |
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Translation Definition–noun | 1. | the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language. | | 2. | a version of such a rendering: a new translation of Plato. | | 3. | change or conversion to another form, appearance, etc.; transformation: a swift translation of thought into action. | | 4. | the act or process of translating. | | 5. | the state of being translated. | | 6. | Mechanics. motion in which all particles of a body move with the same velocity along parallel paths. | | 7. | Telegraphy. the retransmitting or forwarding of a message, as by relay. | | 8. | Mathematics. | a. | a function obtained from a given function by adding the same constant to each value of the variable of the given function and moving the graph of the function a constant distance to the right or left. | | b. | a transformation in which every point of a geometric figure is moved the same distance in the same direction. | | | 9. | Genetics. the process by which a messenger RNA molecule specifies the linear sequence of amino acids on a ribosome for protein synthesis. | |
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