transitional form

collocation in English

meaningsoftransitionalandform

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transitional
adjective
uk
/trænˈzɪʃ.ən.əl/us
/trænˈzɪʃ.ən.əl/
belonging or relating to a change, or the process of change, from one form or type ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition oftransitionalandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftransitional form

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It became nationally known before 1937 as a centre of the cotton (and rayon) weaving industry developed through using iron-gear looms, atransitionalformof technology.
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In this series, there were 14 (8.1%) out of 173 patients with partial, 7 (6.4%) out of 110 patients with complete, and no patient withtransitionalform.
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That is another worrying sign, given the fact that that country is going through atransitionalformof government.
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It is all the more dangerous, because the whole case is that the centre should be left untouched as a purelytransitionalformof government.
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This induced him to emphasize its status as atransitionalform, combining, like the platypus, traits of several larger groups.
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The filmmakers conceived thetransitionalformbecause they pondered the idea of humans mistaking space suits for alien skin.
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But until the late 1990s, scientists had dismissed them as merely a relatively uncommontransitionalformbetween open- and closed-cell formations of stratocumulus clouds.
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In hertransitionalformshe is less agile than she is as a wolf, but stronger than she is in human form.
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They are protists and are suggested to have evolutionary significance in being a possibletransitionalformbetween ecologically important heterotrophic and photosynthetic species among chromalveolates.
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Versions numbered 3.9x are atransitionalformof the language, implementing some (but not all) of the new features found in version 4, such as arrays.
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In hertransitionalformshe can speak, use her forepaws as hands and easily stand erect, and at least some of her senses remain superhumanly acute.
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Transitional forms with various, more or less definite patterns often occur.
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From a study of a number of documents which exhibit transitional forms it appears that this cursive was originally simplified capital writing.
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The absence of transitional forms and the frequent lack of mimicry in male butterflies were unexplained by selectionist theory.: 2.
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There is little preservation of transitional forms between the two periods.
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There are no transitional forms known regarding the number of epiparietals.
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It is rare to find only one member of the group present, but minettes, vogesites, kersantites, etc., all appear and there are usually transitional forms.
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The word quantum therefore refers to an all-or-none reaction, where transitional forms are particularly unstable, and perished rapidly and completely.
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Clear transitional forms with land-dwelling vertebrate groups have not yet been found, the earliest known species of the ichthyosaur lineage being already fully aquatic.
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