A translation is when a shape slides. There are three other transformations other than this: * rotation * dilation * reflection. During translation, an object changes its position but not orientation.
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Location.
they are all with shapes and have to do with geometry
On the Cartesian plane a translation moves every point on a shape in the same distance and direction
A reflection is a mirror image of a shape whereas a translation moves an image to a different place
In 2 dimensional space it is a translation vector which is a 2x1 column vector.