transformation
Meanings
noun
- The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
- 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.
- A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
- The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
- The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
- A woman's wig.
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English transformacioun, from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform + -ation.
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