Trans

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Trans- is a Latin prefix meaning "across", "beyond", or "on the other side of".

Used alone, trans may refer to:

  • Transgender, people who identify themselves with a gender that differs from their sex societally designated/assigned at birth
  • Transsexual, people who seek to transition from their birth-assigned sex to another via therapy and/or surgery

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Trans (festival), a former festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Trans (film), a 1998 American film
  • Trans Corp, an Indonesian business unit of CT Corp in the fields of media, lifestyle, and entertainment
    • Trans Media, a media subsidiary of Trans Corp
      • Trans TV, an Indonesian television network
      • Trans7, an Indonesian television network

Literature

  • Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities, a 2016 book by Rogers Brubaker
  • Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, a 2021 book by Helen Joyce

Music

  • Trans (album), by Neil Young
  • Trans (Stockhausen), a 1971 orchestral composition

Places

  • Trans, Mayenne, France, a commune
  • Trans, Switzerland, a village

Science and technology

  • Cis-trans isomerism, in chemistry, a form of stereoisomerism
    • Trans fat, fats containing trans-isomer fatty acids
  • Trans effect in inorganic chemistry, the increased lability of ligands that are trans to certain other ligands
  • Trans-acting in molecular biology, an external factor which acts on a molecule
  • Trans-lunar injection, propulsive maneuver of a spacecraft towards the Moon
  • TRANS.COM, an 8080/Z80 to 8088/8086 computer code translator

Other uses

See also

  • Trance (disambiguation)
  • Tranz (disambiguation)
  • Tran (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Trans
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