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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin transform?t?vus (“transformative”), from Latin tr?nsf?rm?tus (“transformed”) + -?vus (suffix attached to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming deverbal adjectives meaning ‘doing or related to doing [the verb]’). Tr?nsf?rm?tus is the perfect passive participle of tr?nsf?rm? (“to transform”), from tr?ns- (prefix meaning ‘across; beyond; through’) + f?rm? (“to fashion, form, format, shape”) (from f?rma (“appearance, figure, form, shape”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Ancient Greek ????? (morph?, “a form, shape”)). The English word is analysable as transform +? -ative.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tr??ns?f??m?t?v/, /t?æns-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?f??m?t?v/, [-??v]
• Hyphenation: trans?form?a?tive

Adjective

transformative (comparative more transformative, superlative most transformative)

1. That causes transformation.

   Synonyms: transformatory, transmutative

   Antonym: nontransformative
2. (linguistics) Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones; transformational.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• transformational grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• transformation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English transformen, from Old French transformer, from Latin transformo, transformare, from trans (“across”, preposition) + forma (“form”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (UK) enPR: tr?nsfôm?, tränsfôm?; IPA^(key): /t?æns?f??m/, /t???ns?f??m/
  • (US) enPR: tr?nsfôrm?; IPA^(key): /t?æns?f??m/
• Noun:
  • (UK) enPR: tr?ns?fôm, träns?fôm; IPA^(key): /?t?ænsf??m/, /?t???nsf??m/
  • (US) enPR: tr?ns?fôrm; IPA^(key): /?t?ænsf??m/
• Hyphenation: trans?form

Verb

transform (third-person singular simple present transforms, present participle transforming, simple past and past participle transformed)

1. (transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.

   The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

   Synonyms: alter, change, convert, make over, transmogrify

2. (transitive) To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.

   • Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

   Synonyms: alter, change

3. (transitive, mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
4. (transitive, electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
5. (transitive, genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
6. (intransitive) To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.

   Synonyms: alter, change

Related terms

• transformation

Derived terms

• transformer

Translations

Noun

transform (plural transforms)

1. (mathematical analysis) An operation (often an integration) that converts one function into another.
2. (by extension) A function so produced.
3. (geology, seismology) A transform fault.

Derived terms

• Borel transform
• discrete transform
• Fourier transform
• fractal transform
• integral transform
• See also: List of transforms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Related terms

• transformable
• transformance
• transformant
• transformate
• transformation
• transformational
• transformative
• transformed
• transformer
• transforming
• transformism
• transformist
• transformity

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ trans?form ]

Verb

transform

1. first-person singular present indicative of transforma
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of transforma