Translation (biology) - Genetic code. 1  Whereas other aspects such as the 3D structure, called tertiary structure, of protein can only be predicted using sophisticated algorithms, the amino acid sequence, called primary structure, can be determined solely from the nucleic acid sequence with the aid of a translation table.
Confidence votes 9. A phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood in the ordinary sense is an idiom. A phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood in the ordinary sense is an idiom.
(uncountable and countable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described (but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile); the word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.