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Definition of Transformation

1. Noun. A qualitative change.

2. Noun. (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.

3. Noun. A rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure.

4. Noun. (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA.

5. Noun. The act of changing in form or shape or appearance. "A photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"

Definition of Transformation

1. n. The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.

Definition of Transformation

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

2. Noun. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better. ¹

3. Noun. (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. ¹

4. Noun. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule. ¹

5. Noun. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic. ¹

6. Noun. (politics South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transformation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transformation

1. The change of form or structure, conversion from one form to another. The change that a normal cell undergoes as it becomes malignant. In eukaryotes, the conversion of normal cells to malignant cells in cell culture. Origin: L. Formatio = formation This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transformation

transfluence transfluences transfluent transfluorescence transfluthrin transfluvial transflux transfluxes transform transform fault

transformability transformable transformant transformants transformasome transformation transformation constant transformation efficiency transformation zone transformational

transformational rules transformationally transformations transformative transformatively transformed transformed cell transformed lymphocyte transformer transformerless

Literary usage of Transformation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"By means of a birational transformation, either of the whole plane or of the one curve, ... The transformation is a birational transformation of the plane, ..."

2. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"plane transformation, multiple transformations associated with every. .... Cubic through 8 points, geometrical transformation by. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Thus if x denote dis- ance from a point assumed as origin in the ange, then the transformation x' = x-\-c will crve to generate the distance-measuring scale ..."

4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"The substance whose transformation temperature it is desired to determine ... When the transformation temperature is reached the transformation takes place, ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Let us consider now the geometrical bearing of any transformation ... It When this condition is satisfied the transformation is such as to change the ..."

6. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1902)
"The indentical transformation divides the group Hi(AA')c into two portions, each of which contains an infinitesimal transformation. ..."

7. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"I.—Transformation OF ENERGY. Little is yet known concerning the transformation of energy in gouty individuals, although hypotheses have been earnestly ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"By means of a birational transformation, either of the whole plane or of the one curve, ... The transformation is a birational transformation of the plane, ..."

9. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"plane transformation, multiple transformations associated with every. .... Cubic through 8 points, geometrical transformation by. ..."

10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Thus if x denote dis- ance from a point assumed as origin in the ange, then the transformation x' = x-\-c will crve to generate the distance-measuring scale ..."

11. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"The substance whose transformation temperature it is desired to determine ... When the transformation temperature is reached the transformation takes place, ..."

12. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Let us consider now the geometrical bearing of any transformation ... It When this condition is satisfied the transformation is such as to change the ..."

13. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1902)
"The indentical transformation divides the group Hi(AA')c into two portions, each of which contains an infinitesimal transformation. ..."

14. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"I.—Transformation OF ENERGY. Little is yet known concerning the transformation of energy in gouty individuals, although hypotheses have been earnestly ..."

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