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Transformation

noun

A qualitative change. Synonyms: shift, transmutation.

(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. Synonym: translation.

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"Transformation" Quotes from Famous Books

... moment. You interrupted me, you know! When I saw you standing there among the men for the first moment I felt just as if I did not know you. But at the same moment you caught sight of me and nodded. I don't know what sort of a transformation came over us both; but I felt myself blushing as red as fire. And it was some time before I had the courage to look at ...

— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... was an attempt to revive what was dead and gone. The time had arrived when the old republican institutions could last no longer. The transformation of the state into ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... sing that it was very right to glorify the Virgin Mary, who had borne Christ without losing her virginity, and was therefore worthy of greater honour than some kind of cherubim, and greater glory than some kind of seraphim. After this the transformation was considered accomplished, and the priest having taken the napkin off the saucer, cut the middle bit of bread in four, and put it into the wine, and then into his mouth. He was supposed to have eaten a bit of God's flesh ...

— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy

... In ordinary cases this indescribable impression is caused by the comparison and contrast between our imperfect reminiscences and the reality. In Wakefield the magic of a single night has wrought a similar transformation, because in that brief period a great moral change has been effected. But this is a secret from himself. Before leaving the spot he catches a far and momentary glimpse of his wife passing athwart the front window with her face turned toward the head of the street. The ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... make a transformation in my life," replied the other slowly. "I want to tell you about it when we have more time. I know you have to go back now to your workmen,—but I'm very hopeful, Edna, and, unless I deceive myself greatly, I shall be happy; and you've been so wonderfully ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

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