Trans

Trans- is a Latin prefix meaning "across", "beyond", or "on the other side of".

Used alone, trans may refer to:

Sociology

• Trans, a sociological term which may refer to:
  • Transgender, people who identify themselves with a gender that differs from their sex societally designated/assigned at birth
  • Transsexual, people who seek to transition from their birth-assigned sex to another via therapy and/or surgery

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Trans (festival), a former festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Trans (film), a 1998 American film
• Trans Corp, an Indonesian business unit of CT Corp in the fields of media, lifestyle, and entertainment
  • Trans Media, a media subsidiary of Trans Corp
    • Trans TV, an Indonesian television network
    • Trans7, an Indonesian television network

Literature

• Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities, a 2016 book by Rogers Brubaker
• Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, a 2021 book by Helen Joyce

Music

• Trans (album), by Neil Young
• Trans (Stockhausen), a 1971 orchestral composition

Places

• Trans, Mayenne, France, a commune
• Trans, Switzerland, a village

Science and technology

• Cis-trans isomerism, in chemistry, a form of stereoisomerism
  • Trans fat, fats containing trans-isomer fatty acids
• Trans effect in inorganic chemistry, the increased lability of ligands that are trans to certain other ligands
• Trans-acting in molecular biology, an external factor which acts on a molecule
• Trans-lunar injection, propulsive maneuver of a spacecraft towards the Moon
• TRANS.COM, an 8080/Z80 to 8088/8086 computer code translator

Other uses

• Transition House Association of Nova Scotia (TRANS), Canada
• FC Narva Trans, an Estonian football team
• SEAT Trans, a van variant of the SEAT Panda

See also

• Trance (disambiguation)
• Tranz (disambiguation)
• Tran (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Trans