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the messy middle where you're no longer that and not yet this.
means The process of changing from one state, condition, or stage to another.
from From Latin transitio, 'a going across,' built from trans- ('across') plus the verb ire ('to go') — the same ire that walks through exit, transit, and itinerary. Picture someone literally stepping across a threshold: out of one room, not yet into the next, mid-stride over the line. English borrowed it in the 16th century, and it has been describing that in-between footstep ever since.
- physics
- electrons jump states without ever existing in between
- film trick
- hard cuts often beat fancy wipes and fades
- chemistry
- transition metals make most of the universe's color
- grammar
- good writing lives in the connective words between ideas
- power
- peaceful transfers of authority are historically rare
for instance
hong kong handover — british colony returned to china on july 1, 1997
south africa apartheid end — nelson mandela elected president in 1994, ending white minority rule since 1948