Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transformation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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:
(a) (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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
transformation
n 1: a qualitative change [syn: {transmutation}, {shift}]
2: a function that changes the position or direction of the
axes of a coordinate system
3: the act of transforming; "a photograph is a translation of a
scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: {translation}]
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