xform

English

Etymology

From x- +‎ form.

Verb

xform (third-person singular simple present xforms, present participle xforming, simple past and past participle xformed)

1. Abbreviation of transform.
   • 1997 January 20, Javier Arevalo, “Help please:Why perform lighting in WC?????”, in comp.graphics.algorithms‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

     How would you exactly go about xforming the light's WC coordinates into object space, when the object transform has scaling on it?

   • 1998 March 12, om...@indy.net, “Star Trek: 'Allo 'Allo”, in alt.tv.star-trek.voyager‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

     Tores was a vampire slayer that xformed into a cheerleader (where are the balls this chick had??).

   • 1999 June 7, go...@happyland.com, “random Legacy DVD thoughts”, in alt.cult-movies.alien‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

     The drones in A2 were only retrieving hosts for implantation, so we don't know if they could transform a victim into an egg.
     (for that matter, xforming into an egg isn't even a fact, but there's no proof against it yet,...)