Transformation
Pronunciation
- US IPA: /tɹæns.fɔɹ.meɪ.ʃən/
- UK IPA: /tɹæns.fə(ɹ).meɪ.ʃən/
- Hyphenation: trans + for + ma + tion
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Full definition of transformation
Noun
transformation
(plural transformations)- The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- 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) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.