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WordBand 6–7Core (NGSL)
translate
/ˈtɹɛnzlæet/
verb1 of 2
to change words from one language into another
- “There will always be sentences that need to be translated.”Tatoeba
- “If someone could translate this sentence, that would be great.”Tatoeba
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noun2 of 2
In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)