Transformation

Quick meaning: Transformation is a noun meaning The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.

Meaning

The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.

More Meanings

1. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
2. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
3. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
4. (politics, South Africa) The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
5. (mathematics) 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.
6. (obsolete) A woman's wig.

Example Sentences

undergo a radical transformation

Over the past two centuries, the railway has become a force of economic and social transformation connecting towns and cities, carrying ideas and ambitions. One place to experience this change was Swindon. With the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway, Swindon began a remarkable transformation as what had been a modest market town quickly became a centre of industrial activity.

“This material has a specific hardness and is chemically very stable. It forms naturally from calcium alone, but bacteria accelerate the transformation into calcium carbonate,” explains Alejandro Montesinos, head of the Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Circular Economy Research Group at Tec de Monterrey and a member of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Sustainable Manufacturing.

Word Forms

• transformations

Synonyms for transformation

Depending on context, synonyms include metamorphosis, transfiguration, transmogrification, transmutation, conversion, development.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transmutation, translation, shift, transformational, transformative, transformed.

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