plural of transition element

A large-scale transportation system in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles.

(physics) The temperature at which one phase of a material changes into another; a transition point / (physics, chemistry) The temperature at which one form of a polymorph changes into another

plural of mass transit

(physics) The stage in the flow or a fluid during which it changes from laminar to turbulent / (geology) The region between the upper and lower mantle characterized by a rapid increase in density

plural of transition function

(UK, Ireland) A town in the British and Ireland that is a member of the Transition Towns movement and is striving to develop a higher standard of living and an environmentally friendly future.

plural of transition town

(chemistry) An intermediate state in a chemical reaction that has a higher free energy than the reactants or the products

(mathematics, stochastic processes) A square matrix whose rows consist of nonnegative real numbers, with each row summing to 1. Used to describe the transitions of a Markov chain; its element in the ith row and jth column describes the probability of moving from state i to state j in one time step.