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  1. Transitional series. See series.
  2. In grammar, the case expressing direction toward. Also called terminalis. A. S. Gatschet, Gram, of the Klamath Lang., p. 484.
  3. Of or pertaining to transition; containing, involving, or denoting transition; changing; passing: as, the transitional stages of a tadpole; the transitional plumage of a molting bird. [The word may have a strong sense, like metamorphic or transmutational (see def. 2), but is usually much weaker, and more nearly synonymous with transitory or transient.] One of the commonest transitional rocks deserves in several respects a further description. Darwin, Geol. Observations, i. 66. At parenzo, the real charm is to be found in the traces which it keeps of the great transitional ages when Roman and Teuton stood side by side. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 100. Every period, however original and creative, has a transitional aspect in its relation to the years before and after. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 14.
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  • The new "transitional" government, was nearly wiped out by an "Islamic Courts" movement (which attempted to put the entire country under the rule of Islamic clergy and Islamic law). —  StrategyPage.com
  • I would suggest that for the next year or two or three, which are gonna be nervous, transitional, mutational years -- where things are gonna happen very fast, by the way -- the transition could be facilitated if every city set up little meditation rooms, little shrine rooms, where the people in transition, dropping out, could meet and meditate together. —  Information Liberation
  • The GPA provided for a transitional unity government whose primary purpose would be to prepare for benchmark legislative elections.
  • The opposition issued a public call for Aristide's removal and announced plans for a transitional government.
  • The over-enrichment of fresh, transitional, and marine waters with nitrogen (N) can lead to problems associated with eutrophication, such as a change in species composition of aquatic plants and nuisance algal blooms. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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