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transliteration
CIDE DICTIONARY
transliteration, n.
The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
transliteration
amplification, bilingual text, clavis, crib, decipherment, decoding, epigraph, faithful translation, free translation, gloss, glossary, initialing, inscription, interlinear, interlinear translation, key, lettering, loose translation, metaphrase, paraphrase, pony, restatement, rewording, transcription, translation, trotFor further exploring for "transliteration" in Webster Dictionary Online