(translation studies) The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
(mathematics) A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
“He is the only Italian poet from the era to have achieved a considerable translatability and literary reputation abroad.”
“Either way, such failures of easy translatability are far too localized to encourage talk of different conceptual schemes.”
“These severe restrictions on the translatability of the expressible, on the presentable and the representable, are suggestive of the rigours of Beckett's work.”