Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as transitional.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Transitional.

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  • adverb Transitional.

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Examples

  • It may reasonably be asked whether instead of prolonging full-time study, we might better provide for some kind of transitionary process to facilitate the transfer from learning to doing.

    Higher Education in Ontario: Who Goes? Who Benefits? Why Pays? 1970

  • Hanifin agreed but still saw room in the market, at least for a transitionary period.

    Blockbuster Beyond The Grave George Anderson 2010

  • And the struggle between the two mediums -- how they feed off each other but still remain independent of one another -- underlines what Gore calls "the transitionary period" that American politics is going through.

    Jose Antonio Vargas: The Goracle -- Al Gore, the Internet and the Future of American Politics 2010

  • The scientific theory of evolutin has accurately allowed predictions of transitionary fossils; suggesting both what they would look like and what soil strata to find them in.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Dalle is clearly in a transitionary phase and it will be interesting to see the direction that Spinnerette take in the next 12 months, for it seems that in creative terms Dalle is seeking out uncharted waters, emancipated by the chains of her former project which she so clearly felt restrained by.

    Spinnerette-Ghetto_Love-(Advance_EP)-2009-DV8 | Happy Share Scott at 10:52 PM 2009

  • I think what the president is saying is we'll have a 35,000 to 50,000 residual combat training mission there, and it will be transitionary.

    CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2009 2009

  • Perhaps it was quite common for flying beasts at one time to use this technique or perhaps this was a transitionary behavior between reptile and bird.

    Giant Pterosaur Behavior James Gurney 2009

  • On the basis of the 50 year trend that Mark outlines above - the transitionary period of the 1920s and 1930s by contrast happened relatively quickly.

    How low can we go? Mark Reckons 2009

  • James Robinson did some yeoman work in his transitionary work between Jim Lee and Brandon Choi and Alan Moore on WildC.A.T.S.

    Everybody’s Somebody’s Baby – Day Six | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Once fruits have become ingrained as the go-to transitionary fuel, their multisensory experiential qualities can be leveraged into high-volume snacking.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

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