transition

The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.

A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.

Holonym: metadiscourse

A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

A change of key.

A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.

To make a transition.

To bring through a transition; to change.

The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.

To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

Eric told me that after he transitioned, he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.

And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition. First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psychotherapy […]