| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PREFIX: | 1. Across; on the other side; beyond: transpolar. 2. Through: transcontinental. 3. Change; transfer: transliterate. 4. Having a pair of identical atoms on opposite sides of two atoms linked by a double bond. Used of a geometric isomer: trans-butene. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin tr ns-, from trns, across, beyond, through. See ter -2 in Appendix I.
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