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noun
The transfer of genetic material from one cell to another, typically between bacterial cells, and typically via a bacteriophage or pilus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
The process whereby a transducer converts energy from one form to another.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The conversion of a stimulus from one form to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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The conversion of energy (especially light energy) into another form, especially in a biological process such as photosynthesis or in a transducer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Particularly in the discipline of artificial intelligence, a form of inference, according to which the response appropriate to a particular known case, also is appropriate to another particular case diagnosed to be functionally identical. This contrasts with induction, in which general rules derived from past observations are applied to future cases as a class (compare also analogy).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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The improvement of an electronic logic network by reduction of redundant components in an initial version, using an established pruning procedure, then applying permissible functions for transformation of the network into a workable form. Thereafter the transformation and reduction may be repeated till no worthwhile further improvement results.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, design, human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: natural process, natural action, action, activity
Narrower terms: microphoning
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(genetics) the process of transfering genetic material from one cell to another by a plasmid or bacteriophage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: organic process, biological process
History
1650s, Latin transductionem, form of Latin trānsdūcō (“lead across”). By surface analysis, transduce + -tion.
Blend of transformation + reduction.
Across languages
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