transformation

Inherited from Middle English transformacioun, from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform +‎ -ation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌtɹæns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/

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• Hyphenation: trans‧for‧ma‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

transformation (countable and uncountable, plural transformations)

1. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.

   undergo a radical transformation

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) The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.

• metamorphosis
• shapeshifting
• transmogrification
• transmutation
• transfiguration

• transform

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiōnem, from Latin trānsfōrmō.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/

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transformation f (plural transformations)

1. transformation
2. (rugby) conversion

• transformation de Fourier

• transformer (verb)

• “transformation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

transformation c

1. transformation

• transform
• transformator
• transformera

• transformation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• transformation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)