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transformation

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a qualitative change [syn: transmutation , shift ] (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure ...

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In United States copyright law , transformation is a possible justification that use of a copyrighted work may qualify as fair use , i.e., that a certain use of a work does not infringe its holder's copyright due to the public interest in the usage. Transformation ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a radical transformation (= a complete change in appearance, especially when this is an improvement ) ▪ The city has undergone a radical transformation. undergo a transformation (= change completely ) ▪ After the accident, ...

Usage examples of transformation.

He was rubbing his depleted anther and chuckling, perhaps at the thought of what his gengineered viruses were doing to the bodies on the floor, perhaps at the thought of how the modified honeysuckle plant that kept them from protesting their transformation might be received in the outer world, if only he would release it, or if it would escape.

In connection with all these lines of fuel testing, certain research work, both chemical and physical, is carried on to determine the true composition and properties of the different varieties of coal, the changes in the transformation from peat to lignite, from lignite to bituminous coal, and from bituminous to anthracite coal, and the chemical and physical processes in combustion.

The transformation of the Episcopal Office in the Church into an Apostolic Office.

Transformation of the Baptismal Confession into the Apostolic Rule of Faith.

Since that war, the department has appropriately drawn these agencies into its transformation of the military.

He starts with a cell as they do, grows to maturity by assimilative organization and endowing transformation of foreign nutriment as they do, his life is a continuous process of waste and repair of tissues as theirs is, and there is, from the scientific point of view, no conceivable reason why he should not be subject to physical death as they are.

That was why, among other novel transformations, I had once ended up with a Victorian bassinet whose wicker was threaded with new wood beads in bright colors and designs that both my client and her baby adored.

Since the extractive matters contained in wort and beer consist for the most part of the transformation products of starch, it is only natural that these should have received special attention at the hands of scientific men associated with the brewing industry.

These vessels receive the blood and bring it into intimate contact with the tissues, which take from it the principal part of its oxygen and other elements, and give up to it carbonic acid and the other waste products resulting from the transformation of the tissues, which are transmitted through the veins to the heart, and thence by the arteries to the lungs and various excretory organs.

Positive science, we are told, presents the universe to us as an immense homogeneous transformation, maintaining an exact equivalence between departure and arrival.

On the one hand, we have mechanism, repetition, inertia, constants, and invariants: the play of the material world, from the point of view of quantity, offers us the aspect of an immense transformation without gain or loss, a homogeneous transformation tending to maintain in itself an exact equivalence between the departure and arrival point.

Actually, his transformation from a sickly old litigator to a radiant, energetic philosopher was nothing less than miraculous.

His transformation from a frail old litigator to a vital, young Adonis was not brought about by a simple change in his diet and a daily dose of some quick-fix exercise plan.

It was a transformation that could not even have been imagined by any mammoth or mastodont who ever lived.

Among the heap of things, Silence could pick out another monochord, a case of tubes that probably held incense, a mirror, and a dozen other miscellaneous pieces of equipment that she could not imagine wanting for a simple transformation.