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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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??e?t?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p??e?t?s/
• Hyphenation: op?er?ators

Noun

operators

1. plural of operator

Anagrams

• aeroports, aëroports, poor rates

Swedish

Noun

operators

1. indefinite genitive singular of operator