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trans⋅form

  [v. trans-fawrm; n. trans-fawrm]
Use transformed in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
2. to change in condition, nature, or character; convert.
3. to change into another substance; transmute.
4. Electricity.
a. to increase or decrease (the voltage and current characteristics of an alternating-current circuit), as by means of a transformer.
b. to decrease (the voltage and current characteristics of a direct-current circuit), as by means of a transformer.
5. Mathematics. to change the form of (a figure, expression, etc.) without in general changing the value.
6. Physics. to change into another form of energy.
–verb (used without object)
7. to undergo a change in form, appearance, or character; become transformed.
–noun
8. Mathematics.
a. a mathematical quantity obtained from a given quantity by an algebraic, geometric, or functional transformation.
b. the transformation itself.
9. the result of a transformation.
10. a transformation.
11. Logic. transformation (def. 5).
12. Linguistics. a structure derived by a transformation.
Origin:
1300–50; ME transformen < L trānsfōrmāre to change in shape. See trans-, form

Related forms:
trans⋅form⋅a⋅ble, adjective
trans⋅form⋅a⋅tive, adjective

Synonyms:
1. transfigure. Transform, convert mean to change one thing into another. Transform suggests changing from one form, appearance, structure, or type to another: to transform soybeans into oil and meal by pressure. Convert suggests so changing the characteristics as to change the use or purpose: to convert a barn into a house.
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trans·form   (trāns-fôrm')   
v.   trans·formed, trans·form·ing, trans·forms

v.   tr.
  1. To change markedly the appearance or form of: "A thick, fibrous fog had transformed the trees into ghosts and the streetlights into soft, haloed moons" (David Michael Kaplan).
  2. To change the nature, function, or condition of; convert. See Synonyms at convert.
  3. Mathematics To subject to a transformation.
  4. Electricity To subject to the action of a transformer.
  5. Genetics To subject (a cell) to transformation.
v.   intr.
To undergo a transformation.
n.   (trāns'fôrm')
The result, especially a mathematical quantity or linguistic construction, of a transformation.

[Middle English transformen, from Old French transformer, from Latin trānsfōrmāre : trāns-, trans- + fōrma, form.]
trans·form'a·ble adj.
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