Editing Translation (geometry) (section)

{{Short description|Planar movement within a Euclidean space without rotation}}
[[File:Traslazione OK.svg|right|thumb|A translation moves every point of a figure or a space by the same amount in a given direction.]]

In [[Euclidean geometry]], a '''translation''' is a [[geometric transformation]] that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same [[Distance geometry|distance]] in a given [[direction (geometry)|direction]]. A translation can also be interpreted as the addition of a constant [[vector space|vector]] to every point, or as shifting the [[Origin (mathematics)|origin]] of the [[coordinate system]]. In a [[Euclidean space]], any translation is an [[isometry]].