Trans- is a Latin prefix meaning "across", "beyond", or "on the other side of". Used alone, trans may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Trans (festival) trans was an annual, non-commercial arts festival held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, linked with the Urban Arts Academy and organised by the Belfast Waterfront Hall. Over a four-week period it hosted a programme of gigs, free seminars, courses, e ...

, 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 Trans is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. See also *Communes of the Mayenne department The following is a list of the 240 communes of the Mayenne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following inte ...

, France, a commune *

Trans, Switzerland Trans is a village in the municipality of Tomils in the district of Hinterrhein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. In 2009 Trans merged with Feldis/Veulden, Scheid and Tumegl/Tomils to form the municipality of Tomils.

, a village

Science and technology

Trans effect In inorganic chemistry, the trans effect is the increased lability of ligands that are trans to certain other ligands, which can thus be regarded as trans-directing ligands. It is attributed to electronic effects and it is most notable in square pl ...

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 A trans-lunar injection (TLI) is a propulsive maneuver used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory that will cause it to arrive at the Moon. History The first space probe to attempt TLI was the Soviet Union's Luna 1 on January 2, 1959 which wa ...

, propulsive maneuver of a spacecraft towards the Moon *

TRANS.COM A source-to-source translator, source-to-source compiler (S2S compiler), transcompiler, or transpiler is a type of translator that takes the source code of a program written in a programming language as its input and produces an equivalent sou ...

, an 8080/Z80 to 8088/8086 computer code translator * Cis-trans isomerism, in chemistry, a form of stereoisomerism ** Trans fat, fats containing trans-isomer fatty acids

Sociology

* Trans, a sociological term which may refer to: **

Transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...

, people who identify themselves with a gender that differs from their biological sex ** Transsexual, people who seek to transition from their birth-assigned sex to another via therapy and/or surgery

Other uses

Transition House Association of Nova Scotia The Transition House Association of Nova Scotia (abbreviated THANS) is a Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-based organisation that runs women's shelters. THANS was founded in 1989. THANS organises an annual purple ribbon awareness campaign in memor ...

(TRANS), Canada *

FC Narva Trans JK Narva Trans, commonly known as Narva Trans or just Trans, are a professional Estonian association football club based in Narva that compete in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Narva Kreenholm St ...

, an Estonian football team