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transformation

/ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/

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What does transformation mean?

noun

  1. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
  2. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
  3. 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

  1. A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
  2. The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
  3. The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
  4. (obsolete) A woman's wig.

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/ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌtɹæns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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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.”
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
Lamennais was the origin of this transformation, although it is personified in another man, and that other man, was named Pierre Leroux.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
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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.
VariousThe Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915Project Gutenberg ebook #987
Before transformation he smeared himself with the salve, which be preserved in a small pot, and hid his clothes in the thicket.
S. (Sabine) Baring-GouldThe Book of Were-WolvesProject Gutenberg ebook #5324
Little more than a year later the transformation which the old Valmêt place had undergone was the talk and wonder of Côte Joyeuse.
Kate ChopinThe Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesProject Gutenberg ebook #160