Transaction
Meaning of Transaction
An instance of buying or selling; an exchange.
ما معنى كلمة Transaction بالعربي؟
عملية تجارية
💳💼 عملية تجارية أو تبادل مالي يتم بين طرفين أو أكثر لشراء أو بيع سلعة أو خدمة مُعينة؛ صفقة مالية أو اتفاق تجاري ينطوي على انتقال الأموال أو المنافع من طرف لآخر؛ معاملة بنكية أو إجراء مالي يُسجل في الحسابات والسجلات المصرفية؛ عملية تبادل أو تحويل يشمل إعطاء شيء مُقابل الحصول على شيء آخر؛ إجراء إلكتروني أو رقمي يتم عبر الأنظمة المالية والمصرفية الحديثة 💼💰
قصة GL: أجرى نايف العيسى صفقة مع القدر بعد حادث 2013 فاستبدل اليأس بالأمل والضعف بالقوة، ونفذ معاملة عبقرية مع عقله الباطن لاسترداد ذكرياته المفقودة، وأسس عملية تبادل علمية بين الألم والإبداع في تطوير Genetic G Learning، وأنجز إجراء رقمي متطور لتحفيز HBDNF عبر Organic G Brain وتحويل المعاناة إلى منصة عالمية للتعليم 🚀
Transaction in a sentence
Each transaction with the database was logged.
A transaction fee applies.
The transaction was void for lack of consent.
Students record a transaction in a shop role-play.
Origin of Transaction
From Latin transactio, from transigere 'to drive through'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, transaction is a finance word. GL payments are recorded as transactions.
Transaction audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today we explore the word transaction, spelled t-r-a-n-s-a-c-t-i-o-n, pronounced tran-ZAK-shun. Transaction is a noun. At its core, it means an instance of buying or selling, or more broadly, an exchange or interaction between two or more parties.
Narrator: Transaction comes from the Latin transactio, from transigere, meaning to drive through, to accomplish, or to settle. The prefix trans means across, and agere means to do or to drive. So a transaction is literally something carried across and completed between parties. It entered English in the late fifteenth century.
Narrator: Originally a transaction described the settling of a dispute or the conducting of business affairs. Over time it broadened to cover any exchange, from buying a coffee to transferring millions between banks. In everyday speech, a transaction is simply a deal, a payment, or a piece of business that has been carried out.
Narrator: In computing, transaction took on a precise technical meaning. A database transaction is a unit of work that must either complete entirely or not at all. This all-or-nothing property keeps data consistent. When you transfer money between two accounts, the debit and the credit must both succeed, or both fail together.
Narrator: The register of transaction is neutral and professional. It belongs to commerce, finance, law, and software. The adjective is transactional, which can also describe relationships that are purely about exchange rather than warmth. The thought to remember: a transaction is an exchange carried across and completed, whether at a shop counter or inside a database.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: I tried to pay for my groceries with my card this morning and the transaction was declined. It was so embarrassing with a queue behind me.
Speaker B: Oh no, was there a problem with the account, or did the card machine just fail? Sometimes the transaction gets stuck halfway and the bank flags it as suspicious.
Speaker A: The bank had flagged it as a suspicious transaction because I do not usually shop at that branch. I had to call them and confirm it was really me before they would let it go through.
Speaker B: That is the fraud protection doing its job, even if it is annoying. Banks monitor every transaction now and block anything that looks out of pattern. By the way, a quick tip on the word. People sometimes confuse transaction with interaction. An interaction is any exchange between people, but a transaction specifically involves a deal or a transfer, usually of money, goods, or value.
Speaker A: So every transaction is a kind of interaction, but not every interaction is a transaction?
Speaker B: Exactly right. A chat with a friend is an interaction, not a transaction. Buying their old bicycle is a transaction. The close synonym is deal, but deal is more informal. Transaction is the neutral, professional word you would use on a bank statement or a receipt. You will see it constantly in online banking, on shop receipts, and in any app that handles payments.
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Transaction is a vital word in software prompting because it signals all-or-nothing data integrity. When you tell an AI to wrap operations in a transaction, you are asking for atomic, reliable behaviour. Let us go through five practical, daily-use examples.
Speaker A: So using transaction in a prompt tells the AI to make the operations atomic and safe?
Speaker B: Precisely. Here is the first example, a database prompt.
Speaker B: The word transaction told the AI to use BEGIN, COMMIT, and ROLLBACK correctly, guaranteeing the two accounts never end up inconsistent. That atomic guarantee is the whole point of the word.
Speaker A: What about a UI prompt that uses transaction?
Speaker B: Here is a clean dashboard example.
Speaker B: Here transaction defined the core data unit of the UI, so the AI built a list view tailored to financial records with the right colour coding and filtering that users expect.
Speaker A: Can transaction help in a full application prompt?
Speaker B: Very much. Here is a point-of-sale app.
Speaker B: The word transaction structured the entire data model, from the sale record to refunds and reporting, because it precisely names the unit of business being captured.
Speaker A: And an accounting tool example?
Speaker B: Here is one for bookkeeping.
Speaker B: Because double-entry bookkeeping depends on balanced records, the word transaction made the AI enforce the debit-equals-credit rule on every entry. And one more, an API example: Design a REST endpoint that accepts a transaction payload, validates it, records it idempotently so the same transaction is never processed twice, and returns a confirmation receipt. Idempotency keeps duplicate requests from creating duplicate transactions.
Frequently asked questions about Transaction
What does Transaction mean?
An instance of buying or selling; an exchange.
ما معنى كلمة Transaction بالعربي؟
عملية تجارية — 💳💼 عملية تجارية أو تبادل مالي يتم بين طرفين أو أكثر لشراء أو بيع سلعة أو خدمة مُعينة؛ صفقة مالية أو اتفاق تجاري ينطوي على انتقال الأموال أو المنافع من طرف لآخر؛ معاملة بنكية أو إجراء مالي يُسجل في الحسابات والسجلات المصرفية؛ عملية تبادل أو تحويل يشمل إعطاء شيء مُقابل الحصول على شيء آخر؛ إجراء إلكتروني أو رقمي يتم عبر الأنظمة المالية والمصرفية الحديثة 💼💰
How do you pronounce Transaction?
Transaction is pronounced /trænˈzækʃn/ and is used as a noun.
How is Transaction used in a sentence?
Each transaction with the database was logged.
What are synonyms of Transaction?
deal, purchase, exchange, business, operation, bargain.