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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transformation \Trans`for*ma"tion\, n. [L. transformatio: cf. transformation.] The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically:
(Biol.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
(Physiol.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
(Alchemy) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.
(Theol.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion.
(Math.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French transformation and directly from Church Latin transformationem (nominative transformatio) "change of shape," noun of action from past participle stem of transformare (see transform).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of transforming or the state of being transformed. 2 A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better. 3 (context mathematics English) 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 (context linguistics English) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule. 5 (context genetics English) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic. 6 (context politics South Africa English) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
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
(genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA
the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: translation]
Wikipedia
Transformation may refer to:
In molecular biology, transformation is the genetic alteration of a cell resulting from the direct uptake and incorporation of exogenous genetic material ( exogenous DNA) from its surroundings through the cell membrane(s). Transformation occurs naturally in some species of bacteria, but it can also be effected by artificial means in other cells. For transformation to happen, bacteria must be in a state of competence, which might occur as a time-limited response to environmental conditions such as starvation and cell density.
Transformation is one of three processes by which exogenous genetic material may be introduced into a bacterial cell, the other two being conjugation (transfer of genetic material between two bacterial cells in direct contact) and transduction (injection of foreign DNA by a bacteriophage virus into the host bacterium).
"Transformation" may also be used to describe the insertion of new genetic material into nonbacterial cells, including animal and plant cells; however, because " transformation" has a special meaning in relation to animal cells, indicating progression to a cancerous state, the term should be avoided for animal cells when describing introduction of exogenous genetic material. Introduction of foreign DNA into eukaryotic cells is often called " transfection".
Examples include linear transformations and affine transformations, rotations, reflections and translations. These can be carried out in Euclidean space, particularly in (two dimensions) and (three dimensions). They are also operations that can be performed using linear algebra, and described explicitly using matrices.
Transformation is the first studio album by bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, released independently on 14 May 2007. The album was recorded when she was 20 years old, having moved to the United States from her native Australia.
Transformation is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Mission studies. The journal's editor-in-chief is Paul Woods ( Oxford Centre for Mission Studies). It was established in 1984 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.
Transformation is the first album released by Signal Aout 42 after its temporary break-up.
Transformation is an album by American keyboardist Don Preston which was released in March 2001 on the Cryptogramophone label.
In music, a transformation consists of any operation or process that may apply to a musical variable (usually a set or tone row in twelve tone music, or a melody or chord progression in tonal music) in composition, performance, or analysis. Transformations include multiplication, rotation, permutation (i.e. transposition, inversion, and retrograde), and combinations thereof.
Transformations may also be applied to simpler or more complex variables such as interval and spectrum or timbre.
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 is an important issue in deciding whether a use meets the first factor of the fair-use test, and is generally critical for determining whether a use is in fact fair, although no one factor is dispositive.
In United States patent law the term also refers to the test set in In re Bilski: that a patent-eligible invention must “transform a particular article into a different state or thing.”
Transformation is a buzzword popularized by Donald Rumsfeld referring to a "change of mindset that will allow the [US] military to harness the technological advances of the information age to gain a qualitative advantage over any potential foe."
Currently it is composed of three ideas.
"The three key elements of transformation thus far are knowledge, speed and precision. Knowledge, in the sense of being able to use the technical means at our disposal to seek, to track and to find out what the enemy is all about; speed: strategic speed, the ability to project forces over great distances very, very quickly; and precision is the ability to strike the enemy with sort of surgical strikes to kill the enemy quickly." Robert Scales Jr., Battle Plan Under Fire, Transcripts
"its key doctrine is 'network-centric warfare,' a strategy that has friendly combatants networked together for a previously unknown degree of fighting effectiveness." from Nova, Battle Plan Under Fire, Transformation
Transformation - The creation of a force that is dominant across the full spectrum of military operations - persuasive in peace, decisive in war, preeminent in any form of conflict. 1
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.