English
Pronunciation
trans·form·a·tion
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Etymology
transform + -ate|-at(e) + -ion
Noun
en-noun
- the act of transforming or the state of being transformed
- a marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better
- 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
- linguistics a rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule
- genetics the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic
Synonyms
metamorphosis
transmogrification
Related terms
transform
Lorentz transformation
Translations
Capeverdean Crioulo:
*Santiago/Badiu: transformason
Catalan: transformació m
Chinese: ��
Czech: transformace
Danish: transformation
Dutch: transformatie
Esperanto: �an�o
Finnish: muunnos
French: transformation m
Galician: transformación m
German: Transformation f
Greek: με�α��ημα�ι�μ�� (metaschimatismos or methashimatismos)
Italian: trasformazione
Japanese: �� (����, hentai)
Korean: �� (�� byeontae)
Latin: transformatio m
Polish: transformacja f
Portuguese: transformação m
Russian: п�еоб�азовани� (preobrazovainja) f
Slovak: transformácia f
Slovenian: transformacija f
Spanish: transformación f
Swedish: transformation f
French
Noun
transformation m
- transformation
Related terms
transformer pos_v
Category:French nouns
Swedish
Noun
transformation f
- transformation
Category:Swedish nouns
de:transformation
et:transformation
el:transformation
fr:transformation
ko:transformation
io:transformation
id:transformation
ja:transformation
pl:transformation
ru:transformation
simple:transformation
fi:transformation
te:transformation
vi:transformation
tr:transformation
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