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Though the date for the transition has been the subject of recent debate and legislation, the FCC and broadcasters are continuing efforts to prepare viewers to make the switch.

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  1. noun Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another.
  2. noun Passage from one subject to another in discourse.
  3. noun A word, phrase, sentence, or series of sentences connecting one part of a discourse to another.
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  • Though the date for the transition has been the subject of recent debate and legislation, the FCC and broadcasters are continuing efforts to prepare viewers to make the switch. —  Lake News Online Homepage RSS
  • Also helping anchor the transition is a man who knows a thing or two about overhauling an offense - Levine. —  The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines
  • And yet the transition is a subject of great consequence to the nation, one I would say is of great national interest. —  Anwar Ibrahim
  • But when the transition is aberrantly reactivated in adults it can have dire physiological consequences, leading to cancer metastasis as well as other disease processes such as tissue fibrosis. —  innovations-report
  • Hi ho: Well like Tim Buxton said at the Mix09 keynote today, the transition is the important part of a design. —  MSDN Blogs
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  1. from French transition =Provencal transitio =Spanish transicion =Portuguese transição =Italian transizione, from Latin transitio (n-), a passing over or away, from transire, go or pass over: see transient, transit.
 

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