traduction noun. [trǝ'dʌkʃ(ǝ)n] E16.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin traductio(n-) leading across, transference, in Christian Latin also in sense 3, from traduct-: see TRADUCT, -ION.]
1. Conveyance from one place to another; transportation, transference. E16-L17.

2. Translation into another language; a translation. M16-E19.

3. Transmission, handing down; spec. transmission by generation to offspring or posterity. Now rare or obsolete. L16.
b. transf. Something transmitted. M17-L18.

4. The action of traducing or defaming a person or thing; slander, calumny. rare. M17.

5. Logic. Transference or transition from one order of reasoning to another. M19.

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