transformation
See also: Transformation
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform + -ation
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌtɹæns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: trans‧for‧ma‧tion
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun edit
transformation (countable and uncountable, plural transformations)
- The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- undergo a radical transformation
- 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) The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- affine transformation
- agro-transformation
- autotransformation
- backtransformation
- biotransformation
- Cartesian natural transformation
- cotransformation
- cryotransformation
- detransformation
- digital transformation
- electrotransformation
- Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
- Helmert transformation
- Hjelmslev transformation
- Holstein-Primakoff transformation
- Hosaka-Cohen transformation
- Legendre transformation
- linear transformation
- Lorentz transformation
- mansformation
- mistransformation
- Möbius transformation
- natural transformation
- neurotransformation
- phototransformation
- phytotransformation
- retransformation
- supertransformation
- transduction
- transformational
- transformationism
- transformationist
- transformation matrix
- Tschirnhausen transformation
- Tschirnhaus transformation
- Tseytin transformation
Related terms edit
Translations edit
act of transforming
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state of being transformed
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marked change in appearance or character
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mathematical term
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linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another
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genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA
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South Africa: ideologically driven government policy
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiōnem, from Latin trānsfōrmō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
transformation f (plural transformations)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- transformer (verb)
Further reading edit
- “transformation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish edit
Noun edit
transformation c
Declension edit
Declension of transformation | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | transformation | transformationen | transformationer | transformationerna |
Genitive | transformations | transformationens | transformationers | transformationernas |