trans·form

(trăns-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: A steam engine transforms heat into mechanical energy. 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. (trăns′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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Adj.

transformable - capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy; "is lead really transmutable into gold?"; "ideas translatable into reality"

transmutable, translatable, convertible

commutable - subject to alteration or change; "the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment"

Translations

trasformabile

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