different between rebirth vs transformation

English

Etymology

re- +? birth

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?b???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?b??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

rebirth (plural rebirths)

1. Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
2. Revival, reinvigoration.
   • 2009, Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century:

     And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before, […]

3. Spiritual renewal.

Translations

See also

• reborn
• reincarnation
• renaissance
• revival
• metempsychosis

Verb

rebirth (third-person singular simple present rebirths, present participle rebirthing, simple past and past participle rebirthed)

1. (transitive) To cause to be born again or spiritually renewed.

Anagrams

• birther

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