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transformation
/ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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What does transformation mean?
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.
More meanings (4)
noun
- 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.
- (obsolete) A woman's wig.
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IPA pronunciation
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At the moment when Fantine returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place in the production of “black goods.”
Lamennais was the origin of this transformation, although it is personified in another man, and that other man, was named Pierre Leroux.
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Its velocity can be increased, however, by lowering the temperature, on which, then, not only the transformation itself, but its rate depends.
Before transformation he smeared himself with the salve, which be preserved in a small pot, and hid his clothes in the thicket.
Little more than a year later the transformation which the old Valmêt place had undergone was the talk and wonder of Côte Joyeuse.