transformation

transformation

See also: Transformation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō.Morphologically transform +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• (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

Noun

transformation (countable and uncountable, plural transformations)

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

   undergo a radical transformation

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.

Synonyms

• metamorphosis
• shapeshifting
• 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／转型 (zh) (zhuǎnxíng), 轉變／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

Bulgarian: трансформа́ция (bg) f (transformácija) Chinese: Mandarin: 轉型／转型 (zh) (zhuǎnxíng), 轉變／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

Bulgarian: преобразване n (preobrazvane) 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

Bulgarian: трансформа́ция (bg) f (transformácija) 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) Indonesian: transformasi (id) 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)

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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(變態) (ko) (byeontae) 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. (rugby) conversion

Derived terms

• transformation de Fourier

Related terms

• transformer (verb)

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Noun

transformation c

1. transformation