Transformation
[trænsfə'meɪʃ(ə)n;trɑːns-;-nz-] or [,trænsfɚ'meʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; 'a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface'.
(noun.) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA.
(noun.) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure.
(noun.) a qualitative change.
(noun.) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
Checked by Andrew--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.
(n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
(n.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
(n.) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.
(n.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion.
(n.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Metamorphosis, transmutation, transfiguration.
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Examples
- It is through these radiations that spontaneous transformation takes place. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is only necessary then to open one or the other of these latter to cause the appearance or disappearance or transformation of such objects as have been inclosed within it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Fascination is never so imperial as when, roused and half ireful, she threatens transformation to fierceness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The desired transformation is not difficult to define in a formal way. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If the pressure on a gas is greatly increased, a sudden transformation sometimes occurs and the gas becomes a liquid. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A transformation has come over me which I can't account for, myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Conformity, not transformation, is the essence of education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That conception involved nothing less than the complete transformation of two separate identities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then, if the pressure is reduced, a second transformation occurs, and the liquid evaporates or returns to its original form as a gas. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Such a transformation! Jane Austen. Emma.
- The electric waves cause these filings to cohere, and so vary the resistance to the passage of the current as to give a basis for transformation into a record. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We know that freezing is the transformation of a liquid into solid under the influence of cold. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are many different developers in use, any one of which will effect the necessary transformation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On these points Selden could gain no light; for he saw that one effect of the transformation had been to shut him off from free communion with Dorset. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He will be forced to admit that these great and sudden transformations have left no trace of their action on the embryo. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No; the great magician who majestically works out the appointed order of the Creator, never reverses his transformations. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- These inventions would mean radical transformations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That is why it is so difficult for living people to believe that they too are in the midst of great transformations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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