Crossword clues for transmutation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transmutation \Trans`mu*ta"tion\, n. [F. transmutation, L. transmutatio. See Transmute.]
The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
(Geom.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square. [R.]
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(Biol.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.
--Bacon.Transmutation of metals (Alchem.), the conversion of base metals into gold or silver, a process often attempted by the alchemists. See Alchemy, and Philosopher's stone, under Philosopher.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French transmutacion "transformation, change, metamorphosis" (12c.), from Late Latin transmutationem (nominative transmutatio) "a change, shift," noun of action from Latin transmutare "change from one condition to another," from trans- "thoroughly" (see trans-) + mutare "to change" (see mutable). A word from alchemy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) change, alteration. 2 The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation. 3 (context alchemy English) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold. 4 (context physics English) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.
WordNet
n. an act that changes the form or character or substance of something [syn: transubstantiation]
a qualitative change [syn: transformation, shift]
(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment); "the transmutation of base metals into gold proved to be impossible"
Wikipedia
Transmutation may refer to:
Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) is the first album by Bill Laswell's ever-changing "supergroup" Praxis. The album was released in 1992 and features Buckethead on guitar, Bootsy Collins on bass and vocals, Brain on drums, Bernie Worrell on keyboards and DJ AF Next Man Flip on turntables and mixer.
Transmutation features a wide range of musical styles, all mixed together to make a very diverse and unique album. Styles such as heavy metal, funk, hip hop, ambient, jazz and blues are blended together to form a strange style of avant-garde, with extended guitar and keyboard solos, and highly improvised passages.
Transmutation is the second full-length album of the Brazilian death metal band Ophiolatry. It was released in 2008 by Regain Records and Forces of Satan Records, the label run by Infernus.
Usage examples of "transmutation".
His dominant, iron-clad, primeval brutishness was what enabled him to effect the transmutation.
Telepathy, clairvoyance, pyrotechnic, telekinesis, precognition, transmutation and the hundreds of psi-skill variants that defied easy classification?
Controller of Love or Hate, this science can at pleasure confer on human hearts Paradise or Hell: it disposes at will of all forms, and distributes beauty or deformity as it pleases: it changes in turn, with the rod of Circe, men into brutes and animals into men: it even disposes of Life or of Death, and can bestow on its adepts riches by the transmutation of metals, and immortality by its quintessence and elixir, compounded of gold and light.
I wanted to become more assertive, but what if, after gulping one or more ZAP pills, I underwent a complete transmutation and became a totally different man?
So even when he tried to do respectable science, and become a taxonomist, transmutation insisted in getting in on the act.
Only by digestion and transmutation through personality does any work attain the dignity of art. The great works of architecture, even, which are somewhat determined by mathematical rule, owe their charm to the personal genius of their creators.
The abrupt manner in which whole groups of species suddenly appear in certain formations, has been urged by several palaeontologists, for instance, by Agassiz, Pictet, and by none more forcibly than by Professor Sedgwick, as a fatal objection to the belief in the transmutation of species.
It is said by these that the experiments of the mystics are related to the transmutation of the entire Universe.
I never did so, but now I shall teach you how to make a much more marvellous transmutation.
His dominant, iron-clad, primeval brutishness was what enabled him to effect the transmutation.
Am not I ChristopherSly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, by birth apedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation abear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker?
The odor rises as the rubbing goes on, a single churchlike odor of incense, ungrounded by candle-wax or human occupancy, meant for Heaven, a Fume rising in Transmutation She is shorn of all hair, from head to Crux.
It consists in the means of drawing out at discretion portions of the confiscated lands for sale, and carrying on a process of continual transmutation of paper into land, and land into paper.
Beyond that, Flux would begin to thin, sufficient for atmospheric maintenance but with rapidly declining heat as you went beyond the zone, and without sufficient Flux density to properly use it in transmutation.
This was now, strangely enough, his dominating thought: the consciousness that he and she had passed through the fusion of love and had emerged from it as incommunicably apart as though the transmutation had never taken place.