trans

Meanings

Adjective

• In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
• In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are on opposite sides of the central atom.
• Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
• Transgender (or sometimes transsexual).
• Alternative of trans*

Verb

• To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein).

Noun

• A trans person.
• Short form of transaction
• Short form of transmission
• Plural of tran

Related

Opposite words

• cis

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin trāns ("on the other side of").
• or of transsexual (ultimately from Latin trāns).
• Clipping.
• Inflection.