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 Definitions of transformation  [ˌtræns fərˈmeɪ ʃən]  

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Definition of 'transformation' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) transformation
the act or process of transforming.

2.  transformation
the state of being transformed.

3.  transformation
change in form, appearance, nature, or character.

4.  transformation
Ling.

5.  transformation
the process by which deep structures are converted into surface structures using transformational rules.

6.  transformation
the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another resulting in a genetic change in the recipient cell.

Etymology:  (1400–50; late ME < LL trānsfōrmātiō change of shape. See trans -, formation)

Definition of 'transformation' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) transformation, transmutation, shift
a qualitative change

2. (noun) transformation
(mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system

3. (noun) transformation
a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure

4. (noun) transformation
(genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA

5. (noun) transformation, translation
the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
"a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"


Definition of 'transformation' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) transformation
the act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition

2. (noun) transformation
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

3. (noun) transformation
change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis

4. (noun) transformation
the imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation

5. (noun) transformation
a change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion

6. (noun) transformation
the change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value



'transformation' - Nearby Entries  

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