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   trans·for·ma·tion

   /ˌtran(t)sfərˈmāSH(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance: "its landscape has undergone a radical transformation"
   • ▪ a metamorphosis during the life cycle of an animal.
   • ▪ the induced or spontaneous change of one element into another by a nuclear process.
   • ▪ a process by which one figure, expression, or function is converted into another that is equivalent in some important respect but is differently expressed or represented.
   • ▪ a process by which an element in the underlying deep structure of a sentence is converted to an element in the surface structure.
   • ▪ the genetic alteration of a cell by introduction of extraneous DNA, especially by a plasmid.
   • ▪ the heritable modification of a cell from its normal state to a malignant state.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin transformatio(n-), from the verb transformare (see transform).

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   noun. a change or alteration, esp a radical one. the act of transforming or the state of being transformed. maths. a change in position or direction of the reference axes in a coordinate system without an alteration in their relative angle.

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