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transformation
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)
- The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
- (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.
- (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
- (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
- (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)
- transformation
- (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
- transformation
transformation From the web:
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- what transformations are rigid
- what transformation is happening
- what transformations are rigid motions
- what transformations result in congruent figures
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- what transformations preserve congruence
- what transformations are isometries
contravariant
English
Adjective
contravariant (not comparable)
- (category theory, of a functor) which reverses composition
- (object-oriented programming) Using or relating to contravariance.
Translations
Noun
contravariant (plural contravariants)
- (algebra) A bihomogeneous polynomial in dual variables of x, y, ... and the coefficients of some homogeneous form in x, y, ... that is invariant under some group of linear transformations.
Translations
contravariant From the web:
- contravariant meaning
- what is contravariant tensor
- what is contravariant and covariant vectors
- what are contravariant and covariant components of a vector
- what does contravariant mean
- what does contravariant and covariant mean
- what is contravariant metric tensor
- what is contravariant in math
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