transformation

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹæns.fɔɹ.meɪ.ʃən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹæns.fə(ɹ).meɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: trans‧for‧ma‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Etymology

From Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin transformatio.

Noun

transformation (plural transformations)

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. (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.
4. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
5. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
6. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.

Synonyms

• metamorphosis
• transmogrification
• transmutation
• transfiguration

Derived terms

• transformational

Related terms

• transform
• Lorentz transformation

Translations

act of transforming

• Arabic: تحول f (taḩawa)
• Asturian: tresformación f
• Catalan: transformació f
• Czech: proměna f
• Dutch: transformatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: transformado
• Estonian: teisendus
• Finnish: muutos (fi)
• French: transformation (fr) f
• Galician: transformación (gl) f
• German: Transformation (de) f

• Greek: μετασχηματισμός (el) m (metaschimatismós)
• Latin: mutatio (la) f
• Persian: تحول (fa) (tahawol)
• Polish: przekształcenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: transformação (pt) f
• Romanian: transformare (ro) f
• Russian: преобразова́ние (ru) n (preobrazováinje), трансформа́ция (ru) n (transformácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: preobraženje (sh) n
• Spanish: transformación (es) f

state of being transformed

• Finnish: muutostila
• Russian: преобразова́ние (ru) n (preobrazováinje), трансформа́ция (ru) n (transformácija)

marked change in appearance or character

• Finnish: muutos (fi)
• Polish: przemiana (pl) f, przeobrażenie (pl) n

• Romanian: transformare (ro) f
• Russian: преображе́ние (ru) n (preobražéinje)

mathematical term

• Catalan: transformació f
• Finnish: muunnos
• French: transformation (fr) f
• Galician: transformación (gl) f

• Greek: μετασχηματισμός (el) m (metaschimatismós)
• Polish: przekształcenie (pl) n
• Romanian: transformare (ro) f, transformări f pl
• Russian: преобразова́ние (ru) n (preobrazováinje)

linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another

• Catalan: transformació f
• Finnish: muunnos
• Galician: transformación (gl) f

• Greek: μετασχηματισμός (el) m (metaschimatismós)
• Russian: трансформа́ция (ru) n (transformácija)

genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA

• Finnish: muutos (fi)
• Galician: transformación (gl) f

• Romanian: mutație (ro) f, mutare (ro) f
• Russian: трансформа́ция (ru) n (transformácija)

South Africa: ideologically driven government policy

• Russian: перестройка (ru) f (perestroyka)

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• Kabuverdianu:
  • Santiago/Badiu: transformason
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 变换
• Czech: ^{(please verify)} transformace f
• Danish: transformation
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} transformatie f, ^{(please verify)} omvorming f, ^{(please verify)} vervorming f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ŝanĝo, ^{(please verify)} aliformigo, ^{(please verify)} aliformiĝo
• French: ^{(please verify)} transformation (fr) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Transformation f
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} Transformasi
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} trasformazione (it) f

• Japanese: 変態 (へんたい, hentai)
• Korean: 변태 (變態 byeontae)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} transformatio m
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} transformácia f
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} transformacija f
• Swedish: transformation f

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French

Etymology

From Latin trānsfōrmātiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

transformation f (plural transformations)

1. transformation

Related terms

• transformer verb

External links

• “transformation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Swedish

Noun

transformation c

1. transformation