transformation
See also: Transformation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- Hyphenation: trans‧for‧ma‧tion
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
transformation (countable and uncountable, 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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Translations[edit]
act of transforming
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state of being transformed
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marked change in appearance or character
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mathematical term
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linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another
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genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA
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South Africa: ideologically driven government policy
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
transformation f (plural transformations)
- conversion of a try in rugby
Related terms[edit]
- transformer verb
Further reading[edit]
- “transformation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
transformation c
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