transformation

Inherited from Middle English transformacioun, from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform +‎ -ation.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌtɹæns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/

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• Hyphenation: trans‧for‧ma‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

transformation (countable and uncountable, plural transformations)

1. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.

   Synonyms: metamorphosis, transfiguration, transmogrification, transmutation; see also Thesaurus:conversion

   undergo a radical transformation

   • 2024 August 6, Ricardo Treviño, “Self-Healing Concrete Help Buildings Seal Themselves”, in TecScience‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 January 2025:

     “This material has a specific hardness and is chemically very stable. It forms naturally from calcium alone, but bacteria accelerate the transformation into calcium carbonate,” explains Alejandro Montesinos, head of the Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Circular Economy Research Group at Tec de Monterrey and a member of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Sustainable Manufacturing.

   • 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:

     Over the past two centuries, the railway has become a force of economic and social transformation connecting towns and cities, carrying ideas and ambitions. One place to experience this change was Swindon. With the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway, Swindon began a remarkable transformation as what had been a modest market town quickly became a centre of industrial activity.

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) The transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
7. (obsolete) A woman's wig.

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiōnem, from Latin trānsfōrmō.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/

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transformation f (plural transformations)

1. transformation
2. (rugby) conversion

• transformation de Fourier

• transformer (verb)

• “transformation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

transformation c

1. transformation

• transform
• transformator
• transformera

• transformation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• transformation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)