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noun
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: metamorphosis, transfiguration, transmogrification, transmutation, conversion, development, transfigurement, transformation, sea change
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A woman's wig.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: translation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of integrity
Narrower terms: permutation, revision, alteration, transfiguration, transmogrification, metamorphosis
noun
(genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: change of integrity
noun
a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: grammatical rule, rule of grammar
noun
a qualitative change
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: transmutation, shift
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alteration, modification
Narrower terms: improvement, betterment, advance, population shift, pyrolysis, sea change, sublimation, tin pest, tin disease, tin plague, conversion, transition, changeover, degeneration, retrogression, strengthening, weakening
noun
(mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: function, mathematical function, single-valued function, map, mapping
Narrower terms: reflection, rotation, translation, affine transformation
History
Inherited from Middle English transformacioun, from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform + -ation.
Across languages
111 source translations are retained for this English entry.
