transitional

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

transitional
    adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by transition;
           "adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood
           and adulthood"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Transitional \Tran*si"tion*al\, a.
   Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting
   transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "transitional":
      active, altering, changing, convertible, developing, driving,
      evolving, impelling, in motion, mobile, modifiable, motile,
      motivational, motive, motor, moving, propellant, propelling,
      resolvable, shifting, stirring, transformable, transitive,
      transitory, transmutable, traveling

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