transformation

See also: Transformation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō.

Pronunciation

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: trans‧for‧ma‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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

act of transforming

• Arabic: تَحَوُّل‎ (ar) m (taḥawwul)
• Asturian: tresformación f
• Belarusian: пераўтварэ́нне n (pjeraŭtvarénnje), трансфарма́цыя f (transfarmácyja), ператварэ́нне n (pjeratvarénnje)
• Bulgarian: преобразу́ване (bg) n (preobrazúvane), трансформа́ция (bg) f (transformácija)
• Catalan: transformació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉型 (zh), 转型 (zh) (zhuǎnxíng), 轉變 (zh), 转变 (zh) (zhuǎnbiàn)

• Czech: proměna (cs) f
• Dutch: transformatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: transformado
• Estonian: teisendus
• Finnish: muutos (fi)
• French: transformation (fr) f
• Galician: transformación (gl) f
• Georgian: გარდაქმნა (gardakmna), ტრანსფორმაცია (ṭranspormacia)
• German: Transformation (de) f, Verwandlung (de) f, Umformung f
• Greek: μετασχηματισμός (el) m (metaschimatismós)
• Hungarian: átalakítás (hu), alakítás (hu)
• Indonesian: transformasi (id)

• Japanese: 変形 (ja) (へんけい, henkei), 変換 (ja) (へんかん, henkan)
• Korean: 변형 (ko) (byeonhyeong), 변환 (ko) (byeonhwan)
• Latin: mūtātiō (la) f
• Maori: panonitanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omdanning m or f

  Nynorsk: omdanning f

• Persian: تحول‎ (fa) (tahavvol)
• Polish: przekształcenie (pl) n, przemiana (pl) f, transformacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: transformação (pt) f
• Romanian: transformare (ro) f
• Russian: преобразова́ние (ru) n (preobrazovánije), трансформа́ция (ru) f (transformácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: преображе́ње n

  Roman: preobražénje (sh) n

• Slovak: premena f
• Spanish: transformación (es) f
• Tajik: таҳаввул (tahavvul)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} dönüşüm (tr)
• Ukrainian: перетво́рення (uk) n (peretvórennja), трансформа́ція f (transformácija)

state of being transformed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉型 (zh), 转型 (zh) (zhuǎnxíng), 轉變 (zh), 转变 (zh) (zhuǎnbiàn)

• Finnish: muutostila
• Hungarian: átalakulás (hu), alakulás (hu)

• Japanese: 変形 (ja) (へんけい, henkei), 変換 (ja) (へんかん, henkan)
• Maori: panonitanga
• Polish: transformacja (pl) f
• Russian: преобразова́ние (ru) n (preobrazovánije), трансформа́ция (ru) f (transformácija)

marked change in appearance or character

• Esperanto: aliformiĝo, aliiĝo, transformiĝo
• Finnish: muutos (fi)
• Maori: panonitanga

• Polish: przemiana (pl) f, przeobrażenie (pl) n
• Romanian: transformare (ro) f
• Russian: преображе́ние (ru) n (preobražénije)

mathematical term

• Catalan: transformació (ca) f
• Finnish: muunnos (fi)
• French: transformation (fr) f
• Galician: transformación (gl) f
• Greek: μετασχηματισμός (el) m (metaschimatismós)

• Maori: panonitanga
• Polish: przekształcenie (pl) n, transformacja (pl) f
• Romanian: transformare (ro) f, transformări f pl
• Russian: преобразова́ние (ru) n (preobrazovánije)

linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another

• Catalan: transformació (ca) f
• Finnish: muunnos (fi)
• Galician: transformación (gl) f
• Greek: μετασχηματισμός (el) m (metaschimatismós)

• Hungarian: transzformáció (hu)
• Polish: transformacja (pl) f
• Russian: трансформа́ция (ru) f (transformácija)

genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA

• Finnish: muutos (fi)
• Galician: transformación (gl) f
• Romanian: mutație (ro) f, mutare (ro) f

• Russian: трансформа́ция (ru) f (transformácija)
• Turkish: başkalaşım (tr)

South Africa: ideologically driven government policy

• Russian: перестро́йка (ru) f (perestrójka)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 变换 (zh)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} transformace (cs) f
• Danish: ^{(please verify)} transformation
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} transformatie (nl) f, ^{(please verify)} omvorming (nl) f, ^{(please verify)} vervorming (nl) f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ŝanĝo, ^{(please verify)} aliformigo, ^{(please verify)} aliformiĝo
• French: ^{(please verify)} transformation (fr) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Transformation (de) f

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} trasformazione (it) f
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 変態 (ja) (へんたい, hentai)
• Kabuverdianu:

  Santiago/Badiu: ^{(please verify)} transformason

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 변태 (ko) (byeontae) (^{(please verify)} 變態 (ko))
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} trānsfōrmātiō m
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} transformácia f
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} transformacija f
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} transformation (sv) f

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō, trānsfōrmātiōnem, from Latin trānsfōrmō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

transformation f (plural transformations)

1. transformation
2. conversion of a try in rugby

Related terms

• transformer (verb)

Further reading

• “transformation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Swedish

Noun

transformation c

1. transformation