Definition of "Translation" :

noun: the act of uniform movement

noun: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

"A photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface."

noun: rewording something in less technical terminology

noun: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

noun: a uniform movement without rotation

noun: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

noun: (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same