A translation is the act of moving a shape on a graph without rotating it or changing its size. This can be done by moving each of the points that make up the shape the same distance in the same direction.
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On the Cartesian plane a translation moves every point on a shape in the same distance and direction
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Hopefully the same thing it means in most other grades of geometry, which is a straight one dimensional object that is infinitely long. It differs from a ray, which has a finite point and extends infinitely from that point in a single direction, and a line segment, which has two finite ends.
It means height
It means slanted surface.