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Moving a shape, without rotating or flipping it. "Sliding". The shape still looks exactly the same, just in a different place.
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.
Just moving a triangle, or rotating, or even reflecting (without scaling) a shape will not change its area or its perimeter.
It is the one point that does not move during rotation.
Translation refers to moving a shape from one location (on a coordinate grid) to another such that the size and orientation of the shape does not change.