transformation
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French -, from el. trānsfōrmātiō.
Morphologically transform + -ation
Pronunciation Nountransformation
- The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- undergo a radical transformation
- 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) The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
- French: transformation
- German: Transformation, Verwandlung, Umformung
- Portuguese: transformação
- Russian: преобразова́ние
- Spanish: transformación
- Russian: преобразова́ние
- Russian: преображе́ние
- French: transformation
- Russian: преобразова́ние
- Russian: трансформа́ция
- Russian: трансформа́ция
- Russian: перестро́йка
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