In geometry, the word translation means moving. It can help to think of translating a shape as sliding the shape. When you translate a shape: every point on the shape moves the same distance and ...

A translation is a movement of the graph either horizontally parallel to the \(x\)-axis or vertically parallel to the \(y\)-axis. The graph of \(f(x) = x^2\) is the same as the graph of \(y = x^2\).