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Definition of transformation in English: transformationnoun ˌtransfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)nˌtrɑːnzfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)nˌtrɑːnsfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)nˌtranzfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)nˌtræn(t)sfərˈmeɪʃ(ə)n 1A marked change in form, nature, or appearance. British society underwent a radical transformation Example sentencesExamples - Behind them, we have to believe the mind will undergo a radical transformation.
- If the quasar results are eventually confirmed, our concepts of space and time are sure to undergo radical transformations.
- The radical transformation that many prisoners undergo is often lost in popular accounts of the prison experience.
- Over the course of the last two decades the organisation of governmental activity has undergone a radical transformation.
- Over the last number of weeks, the theatre has been undergoing a radical transformation in the name of theatre.
- This country is undergoing a radical transformation because of illegal immigration and our President will do nothing to stop it.
- I suppose that's why ecopsychology experts suggest that reconnecting with nature requires a transformation of consciousness.
- One of the least demanding of all perennial plants, irises are undergoing a radical transformation regarding color, flower form, and reblooming abilities.
- The traditional post office underwent a radical transformation and the new-look store was opened ten years ago.
- Happily, the nature of the transformation has been the opposite of that predicted by the past century's major prophets: Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.
- One of our biggest challenges is to step back from the fray and find a space where we can reflect on the nature of the transformation so that our response to it is proactive rather than reactive.
- Changes in your appearance reflect major transformations occurring within.
- In the former, there has been a radical transformation in the nature of the designs: artists have developed a new ‘ethnic’ style.
- But the entire focus of reconstruction underwent a wholesale transformation in the months after the war.
- He laughs at these great transformations of nature by nature.
- She could easily see all the changes the transformation wrought on her appearance, and she was glad for them.
- For a hint as to how that might unfold, consider the revolution pop music is currently undergoing - a radical transformation not of content but of distribution and perception.
- The character of the inner city has undergone a marked transformation since the City set up a rejuvenation plan five years ago.
Synonyms change, alteration, modification, variation, conversion, revision, amendment, metamorphosis, transfiguration, evolution, mutation, sea change remodelling, reshaping, remoulding, redoing, reconstruction, rebuilding, recasting, reorganization, rearrangement, reordering, reshuffling, restyling, rejigging, reworking, renewal, renewing, revamping, renovation, overhaul, remaking revolutionizing, revolution, transmutation humorous transmogrification - 1.1 A sudden dramatic change of scenery on stage.
Example sentencesExamples - It is a transformation scene without a suggestion of stage carpentry or fireworks and there is something of enchantment about it.
- Only with the truly exciting transformation scene concluding Act 1 does the show finally get going.
- Music, dialogue, and effects are well balanced throughout, but a special nod goes to the whammo effect the surround sound provides during the transformation scene.
- But here we have to wait about 50 minutes until the big transformation scene, and then we only get one other look at a lupus in the making.
- As with all good fairy stories this one has a happy ending with the audience applauding a clever transformation scene where the Beast finally becomes human again.
- So the horror movies that I most enjoyed were werewolf films, especially if they showed a good transformation scene.
- In the essay, however, the trip took on something of an Arabian Nights adventure and a theatrical transformation scene.
- 1.2 A metamorphosis during the life cycle of an animal.
Example sentencesExamples - The complex transformation to adult morphology begins in the last larval instar and completes during the resting stage of the pupa.
- The metamorphic transformation from larva to pupa to butterfly (with a range of several hundred miles).
- Both the molting process and the metamorphic transformation from larva to pupa are coordinated and regulated by hormones.
- Another striking example of metamorphosis is the transformation of the pluteus stage larva of the sea urchin into the adult.
- With apologies to those whose work we might leave out, we are still far from having a complete understanding of how the transformations of metamorphosis are controlled in even one species.
- The transformation to the adult form sheds the gills in favor of two pairs of wings.
- This is especially true in the late larval transformations into juveniles, where MF plays an inhibitory role, as well as during the transformation of juveniles into adults.
- These results provide insight into the hydrodynamic importance of major evolutionary transformations in pectoral fin morphology within the Actinopterygii.
- Morphological transformation of the antenna also correlates with stratigraphic occurrence.
- In sexual reproduction, spermatocytes develop from the transformation of choanocytes, and oocytes arise from archeocytes.
- 1.3Physics The induced or spontaneous change of one element into another by a nuclear process.
Example sentencesExamples - Except for the transformation of elements by nuclear reactions, all of the atoms in the universe heavier than helium are the products of the nuclear reactions that take place in dying stars.
- Gamma rays are high energy photons, often emitted together with beta or alpha radiations when the transformation has left the atom with excess energy.
- In chemistry, thermodynamics refers to the transformations of energy associated with chemical reactions.
- As a result of the nucleon transformations, a new proton is left behind in the nucleus and the atomic number of the atom is raised by one.
- In a series of experiments, he also found that slow neutrons were efficient agents of nuclear transformations and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
2Mathematics Logic
A process by which one figure, expression, or function is converted into another one of similar value. Example sentencesExamples - He thus enriched analysis and gave the complete solution of the two great questions of the transformation of hyperelliptic functions and of their complex multiplication.
- He was mainly interested in the applications of this subject to linear transformations on Hilbert space.
- Painlevé's first area of interest in mathematics was rational transformations of algebraic curves and surfaces.
- His results on this topic provided connections between number theory, theta functions, and the transformations of abelian functions.
- Picard also discovered a group, now called the Picard group, which acts as a group of transformations on a linear differential equation.
3Linguistics
A process by which an element in the underlying logical deep structure of a sentence is converted to an element in the surface structure. Example sentencesExamples - The transformation is typically carried out clausewise.
- It's a fast language for doing all sorts of text transformations, and you can pick up the simpler elements, I think, from scratch in a week or two.
- At the time he was busy mimeographing handouts about ordering constraints among syntactic transformations.
4Biology
mass noun The genetic alteration of a cell by introduction of extraneous DNA, especially by a plasmid. Example sentencesExamples - Plasmid transformation, selection, and testing for recombinant clones were performed as described.
- The genotype of each strain and plasmids used for transformation are indicated at the top.
- Plasmid manipulation and bacterial transformation were performed by standard techniques.
- Escherichia coli were transformed with the respective plasmids by chemical transformation.
- For each transformation, the plasmid inserts from 7 to 18 colonies were sequenced.
- 4.1 The heritable modification of a cell from its normal state to a malignant state.
Example sentencesExamples - However, its potential function as a tumor suppressor gene suggests a possible role in the malignant transformation of mesothelial cells.
- It is currently believed that most colorectal carcinomas start as benign adenomas that undergo malignant transformation into adenocarcinoma.
- The independent and simultaneous malignant transformation of 4 different stem cells is difficult to imagine in such a small tumor.
- They concluded that this was a case of malignant transformation of cardiac myxoma, but it could also have been multiple tumor emboli.
- Despite their histologic benignity, sinonasal papillomas have a small but definite potential for malignant transformation.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin transformatio(n-), from the verb transformare (see transform). Definition of transformation in US English: transformationnounˌtræn(t)sfərˈmeɪʃ(ə)nˌtran(t)sfərˈmāSH(ə)n 1A thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. its landscape has undergone a radical transformation Example sentencesExamples - He laughs at these great transformations of nature by nature.
- Behind them, we have to believe the mind will undergo a radical transformation.
- If the quasar results are eventually confirmed, our concepts of space and time are sure to undergo radical transformations.
- One of the least demanding of all perennial plants, irises are undergoing a radical transformation regarding color, flower form, and reblooming abilities.
- This country is undergoing a radical transformation because of illegal immigration and our President will do nothing to stop it.
- Happily, the nature of the transformation has been the opposite of that predicted by the past century's major prophets: Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.
- She could easily see all the changes the transformation wrought on her appearance, and she was glad for them.
- The radical transformation that many prisoners undergo is often lost in popular accounts of the prison experience.
- Over the last number of weeks, the theatre has been undergoing a radical transformation in the name of theatre.
- The traditional post office underwent a radical transformation and the new-look store was opened ten years ago.
- Over the course of the last two decades the organisation of governmental activity has undergone a radical transformation.
- The character of the inner city has undergone a marked transformation since the City set up a rejuvenation plan five years ago.
- Changes in your appearance reflect major transformations occurring within.
- I suppose that's why ecopsychology experts suggest that reconnecting with nature requires a transformation of consciousness.
- In the former, there has been a radical transformation in the nature of the designs: artists have developed a new ‘ethnic’ style.
- For a hint as to how that might unfold, consider the revolution pop music is currently undergoing - a radical transformation not of content but of distribution and perception.
- But the entire focus of reconstruction underwent a wholesale transformation in the months after the war.
- One of our biggest challenges is to step back from the fray and find a space where we can reflect on the nature of the transformation so that our response to it is proactive rather than reactive.
Synonyms change, alteration, modification, variation, conversion, revision, amendment, metamorphosis, transfiguration, evolution, mutation, sea change - 1.1 A metamorphosis during the life cycle of an animal.
Example sentencesExamples - The transformation to the adult form sheds the gills in favor of two pairs of wings.
- Morphological transformation of the antenna also correlates with stratigraphic occurrence.
- With apologies to those whose work we might leave out, we are still far from having a complete understanding of how the transformations of metamorphosis are controlled in even one species.
- The complex transformation to adult morphology begins in the last larval instar and completes during the resting stage of the pupa.
- This is especially true in the late larval transformations into juveniles, where MF plays an inhibitory role, as well as during the transformation of juveniles into adults.
- Another striking example of metamorphosis is the transformation of the pluteus stage larva of the sea urchin into the adult.
- These results provide insight into the hydrodynamic importance of major evolutionary transformations in pectoral fin morphology within the Actinopterygii.
- In sexual reproduction, spermatocytes develop from the transformation of choanocytes, and oocytes arise from archeocytes.
- Both the molting process and the metamorphic transformation from larva to pupa are coordinated and regulated by hormones.
- The metamorphic transformation from larva to pupa to butterfly (with a range of several hundred miles).
- 1.2Physics The induced or spontaneous change of one element into another by a nuclear process.
Example sentencesExamples - Except for the transformation of elements by nuclear reactions, all of the atoms in the universe heavier than helium are the products of the nuclear reactions that take place in dying stars.
- As a result of the nucleon transformations, a new proton is left behind in the nucleus and the atomic number of the atom is raised by one.
- In a series of experiments, he also found that slow neutrons were efficient agents of nuclear transformations and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
- Gamma rays are high energy photons, often emitted together with beta or alpha radiations when the transformation has left the atom with excess energy.
- In chemistry, thermodynamics refers to the transformations of energy associated with chemical reactions.
- 1.3Logic Mathematics A process by which one figure, expression, or function is converted into another that is equivalent in some important respect but is differently expressed or represented.
Example sentencesExamples - Picard also discovered a group, now called the Picard group, which acts as a group of transformations on a linear differential equation.
- Painlevé's first area of interest in mathematics was rational transformations of algebraic curves and surfaces.
- His results on this topic provided connections between number theory, theta functions, and the transformations of abelian functions.
- He thus enriched analysis and gave the complete solution of the two great questions of the transformation of hyperelliptic functions and of their complex multiplication.
- He was mainly interested in the applications of this subject to linear transformations on Hilbert space.
- 1.4Linguistics A process by which an element in the underlying deep structure of a sentence is converted to an element in the surface structure.
Example sentencesExamples - At the time he was busy mimeographing handouts about ordering constraints among syntactic transformations.
- The transformation is typically carried out clausewise.
- It's a fast language for doing all sorts of text transformations, and you can pick up the simpler elements, I think, from scratch in a week or two.
- 1.5Biology The genetic alteration of a cell by introduction of extraneous DNA, especially by a plasmid.
Example sentencesExamples - The genotype of each strain and plasmids used for transformation are indicated at the top.
- For each transformation, the plasmid inserts from 7 to 18 colonies were sequenced.
- Plasmid transformation, selection, and testing for recombinant clones were performed as described.
- Plasmid manipulation and bacterial transformation were performed by standard techniques.
- Escherichia coli were transformed with the respective plasmids by chemical transformation.
- 1.6Biology The heritable modification of a cell from its normal state to a malignant state.
Example sentencesExamples - However, its potential function as a tumor suppressor gene suggests a possible role in the malignant transformation of mesothelial cells.
- It is currently believed that most colorectal carcinomas start as benign adenomas that undergo malignant transformation into adenocarcinoma.
- The independent and simultaneous malignant transformation of 4 different stem cells is difficult to imagine in such a small tumor.
- Despite their histologic benignity, sinonasal papillomas have a small but definite potential for malignant transformation.
- They concluded that this was a case of malignant transformation of cardiac myxoma, but it could also have been multiple tumor emboli.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin transformatio(n-), from the verb transformare (see transform). |