different between expansion vs transformation

English

Etymology

From French expansion, from Latin exp?nsi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?spæn??n/
• Hyphenation: ex?pan?sion

Noun

expansion (countable and uncountable, plural expansions)

1. An act, process, or instance of expanding.

2. The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
3. A new addition.

4. A product to be used with a previous product.

5. That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
   • 1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel

     the starred expansion of the skies

6. (steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.

Antonyms

• (act of expanding): contraction, shrinkage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin exp?nsi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??.sj??/

Noun

expansion f (plural expansions)

1. expansion

Descendants

• ? German: Expansion

Further reading

• “expansion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin exp?nsi?, attested from 1776.

Noun

expansion c

1. expansion

Declension

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin tr?nsf?rm?ti?.Morphologically transform +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æns.f???me?.??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?æns.f?(?)?me?.??n/
• Hyphenation: trans?for?ma?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

transformation (countable and uncountable, plural transformations)

1. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
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) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.

Synonyms

• metamorphosis
• transmogrification
• transmutation
• transfiguration

Derived terms

• transformational

Related terms

• transform
• Lorentz transformation

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tr?nsf?rm?ti?, tr?nsf?rm?ti?nem, from Latin tr?nsf?rm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s.f??.ma.sj??/

Noun

transformation f (plural transformations)

1. transformation
2. (rugby) conversion

Derived terms

• transformation de Fourier

Related terms

• transformer (verb)

Further reading

• “transformation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

transformation c

1. transformation