transitional
adjective
tran·si·tion·al
tran(t)-ˈsi-sh(ə-)nəl
tran(t)-ˈsi-zh(ə-)nəl,
tran-ˈzi-sh(ə-)nəl
: marked by transition : involving, providing, or consisting of a passage, movement, or change from one state, condition, subject, place, etc., to another
a transitional passage in music
They are often transitional areas between water environments and dry land, and are populated by many trees and plants that can put up with the occasional flood …—JoAnn Shroyer
The social worlds of neighborhood and village are now less important as transitional zones between home and nonhome settings.—Theano S. Terkenli
… turning into a civilian coup, that … established a transitional government and prepared the way for multi-party elections.—Larry Diamond
… an animal about the size of a turkey that they contend was a flightless bird, a transitional figure between some carnivorous dinosaurs and modern birds.—John Noble Wilford
transitionally
adverb
The problem then is to structure a sequence of reforms that is politically consistent with the social mores of the Soviet Union, economically coherent, and transitionally sound …
—Edgar L. Feige
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