transformation
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Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA: /træns.fɔr.meɪ.ʃən/
- (UK) IPA: /træns.fə(r).meɪ.ʃən/
- Hyphenation: trans‧for‧ma‧tion
[edit] Etymology
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transformation (plural transformations)
- 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
- (politics, South Africa) ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink
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- transform
- Lorentz transformation
[edit] Translations
act of transforming
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state of being transformed
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linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another
South Africa: ideologically driven government policy
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[edit] French
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transformation f. (plural transformations)
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transformation c.
