transformation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
government
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English transformacioun, from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform + -ation.
Base: transform
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: transformations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: undergo a radical transformation
“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.
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.
gloss: A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
countable
uncountable
gloss: A woman's wig.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: transform
Derived words: affine transformation
agro-transformation
autotransformation
backtransformation
biotransformation
Bogoliubov transformation
Bogoliubov-Valatin transformation
Cartesian natural transformation
cotransformation
cryotransformation
detransformation
digital transformation
electrotransformation
Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
heat of transformation
Helmert transformation
Hjelmslev transformation
Holstein-Primakoff transformation
Hosaka-Cohen transformation
intertransformation
Landen's transformation
Legendre transformation
linear transformation
Lorentz transformation
mansformation
mistransformation
Möbius transformation
natural transformation
neurotransformation
phototransformation
phytotransformation
retransformation
supertransformation
transduction
transformational
transformationism
transformationist
transformation matrix
Tschirnhausen transformation
Tschirnhaus transformation
Tseytin transformation
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