Transgression

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Transgression may be:

A Biblical transgression, violation of God's Ten Commandments; sin (1 John 3:4)
A legal transgression, a crime usually created by a social or economic boundary
- In civil law jurisdictions, a transgression or a contravention is a smaller breach of law, similar to summary offence in common law jurisdictions.
A social transgression, violating a norm
Transgression (LDS Church theology), a violation of religious law without the perpetrator's understanding

Science and mathematics

Transgression map in cohomology
Transgression (geology), a relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
Transgression (genetics), a peculiar case of heterosis, showing extreme phenotypes in a hybrid offspring.

Transgression, a novel by Theo Fenraven
Transgressions, a novel based in the English Civil War by Erastes
Transgressions: Volume Two, a short story collection by Stephen King and John Farris
Transgressive fiction, a literary style

Transgression (1931 film), a 1931 film starring Kay Francis
Transgression (1974 film), a 1974 South Korean film by Kim Ki-young
Transgression (2011 film), a 2011 film starring Michael Ironside, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Jonathan Keltz, and Carlos Bardem
Cinema of Transgression, a film movement using shock value and humor
Transgression (album), 2005 release from industrial metal band Fear Factory.

Relational transgression when people violate implicit or explicit relational rules.