adjective
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Of, or relating to a transition
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Temporary; pending the implementation of something new
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XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Examples of transitional in a Sentence
The church as it stands is a fine monument of Early English work, with Transitional details.
Jowett's theological work was transitional, and yet has an element of permanence.
Hence these ten parallel ranges of the middle Kuen-lun system may be grouped in three divisions - (1) the more strictly border ranges of the Upper and Lower Astin-tagh and the Akatotagh; (2) the three ranges of Chimen-tagh, Ara-tagh and Kaltaalaghan, which may be considered as forming a transitional system between the foregoing and the third division; (3) the Arka-tagh, which constitute the elevated rampart of the Tibetan plateau proper.
Transitional examples, combining the box with the earlier table shape, are found dating about 450.
It has a stately transitional Norman tower, and three fine Norman arches.
There are numerous transitional states between the ordinary form of tendril and the inflorescence.
A system of apprenticeship for seven years was established as a transitional preparation for liberty.
Notwithstanding protracted and strenuous opposition on the part of the government, the House of Commons passed a resolution against the continuance of the transitional system.
There is usually a short gap between the canine and first premolar; the upper molars are short-crowned and transitional between the bunodont (tubercular) and selenodont (crescentic) types, with two outer concave tubercles and two inner conical ones; while the lower molars are crescentic, with three lobes in the last of the series..
There are, however, several more or less transitional forms. Tahr are short-horned goats.
Among newer churches the most noticeable are the Evangelical church of St Luke, a Transitional building, with an imposing dome, finished in 1896, and the Gothic parochial church of the Giesing suburb, with a tower 312 ft.
The whole work is perhaps the most perfect example we possess of the transitional style of the early 5th century.
The church of St Edmund is mainly Perpendicular, but there are Transitional Norman and Early English portions.
The church of St Mary, the ancient parish church of East Bourne, is a fine transitional Norman building; and there are numerous modern churches and chapels.
The chapel of St Julian, where French Anglican services are held, is of transitional Norman architecture, greatly altered by restoration.
The founders of Megara Hyblaea settled here temporarily, according to Thucydides, in the winter of 729-728 B.C., but it seems to have remained almost if not entirely uninhabited until the Athenians used it as a naval station in their attack on Syracuse early in 414 B.C. A number of tombs were excavated in 1894, containing objects belonging to a transitional stage between the second and third Sicel period, attributable roughly to r000-goo B.C., and with a certain proportion of Mycenean importations.
There are remains of the church of the Holy Cross in transitional Norman style.
The body of the church, however, is mainly transitional Norman with additions principally Decorated, including a beautiful east window, much ancient woodwork, and other details of interest.
Between 1885 and 1892 there was a transitional period in Danish literature.
The podest marks an essentially transitional state in civic government, and his intervention paved the way for despotism.
Many subdivisions and transitional zones have been suggested by different authors.
The forms of government of colonies present a series of transitional types from the autocratic administration of a governor appointed by the home government to complete democratic selfgovernment.
The hillock on which it rises was no doubt the site of earlier churches, but the present Transitional building dates only from the 12th and 13th centuries, while its portico was built in the 18th century, after the model of the Pantheon at Rome.
Norman or transitional work appears in the base of both towers, of which the southern also shows Early English and Decorated work, while the northern is chiefly Perpendicular.
It should be borne in mind, first, that wherever a new animal suddenly appears or a new character suddenly arises in a fossil horizon we must consider whether such appearance may be due to the non-discovery of transitional links with older forms, or to the sudden invasion of a new type or new organ which has gradually evolved elsewhere.
The crypt embodies remains of the founder's work; the rest is Transitional Norman and Early English in style.
The church of St Andrew is a spacious transitional Norman and Early English building, with later additions, and was formerly a chapel of ease to Waverley Abbey, of which a crypt and fragmentary remains, of Early English date, stand in the park attached to a modern residence of the same name.
The nave is transitional Norman, with a Decorated superstructure including the clerestory.
The nave, in the Transitional and Decorated styles, with a rich midPointed triforium of broad round arches, has been restored, and used as the parish church since 1862.
The architecture of Pompeii must be regarded as presenting in general a transitional character from the pure Greek style to that of the Roman Empire.
Denmark, moreover, like Europe in general, was, politically, on the threshold of a transitional period.
The church of St Mary has Norman and Transitional portions, and in the neighbourhood is the mansion of Gibside, of the 17th century.
The so-called Moyses Hall (perhaps a Jew's House, of which there is a parallel example at Lincoln) retains transitional Norman work.
The church of St Mary, Carisbrooke, has a beautiful Perpendicular tower, and contains transitional Norman portions.
The Marien Kirche is a large edifice in the Transitional style, dating from the 13th century.
The remains are mainly transitional Norman and Early English, and are not extensive.
Professionals refer to a pacifier as a transitional object that helps children adjust to new situations and relieves stress.
This transitional time makes it easier for the bereaved to focus on their feelings after a loss and helps prepare for going about their regular duties.
Its justification is relative, and its function transitional.
This chapel, which is the finest part of the ruins, is Transitional work of the 12th century.
The ruins, beautifully placed on the bank of the river, embody a cruciform church, transitional Norman in style, and exhibiting the carving of the period in its highest development.
The fine church of St Thomas a Becket is transitional between Norman and Early English, and has a beautiful Norman east end.
In the Malacostraca, an elongated heart with numerous segmentally arranged ostia is found only in the aberrant group of Stomatopoda and in the transitional Phyllocarida.
The font is transitional Norman, a good example; and a small pre-Norman crypt remains beneath part of the church.
Rumanian orthography remained in a transitional state throughout the 19th century.
The earliest part of the church is of transitional Norman date; the nave, which is perfect, is Early English and Decorated.
History may soften the contrast by discovering transitional forms, and by showing the religious interest at work in theology as well as the scientific interest affecting early utterances of religion.
The ruins of this, beautifully situated in a wooded valley, are extensive, and mainly of fine transitional Norman and Early English date, acquiring additional picturesqueness from the warm colour of the red sandstone of which they are built.
It is a cruciform structure of transitional Norman and later dates, its central tower having the upper storey set diagonally upon the lower.
Of a previous foundation of the 12th century, called the Hospital of St John, the transitional Norman and Early English chapel remains.