Transform(v. i.) To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.
Transform(v. t.) To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
Transform(v. t.) To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
Transform(v. t.) To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert.
Transform(v. t.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.
Transformable(a.) Capable of being transformed or changed.
Transformation(n.) The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.
Transformation(n.) 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.
Transformation(n.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
Transformation(n.) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.
Transformation(n.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion.
Transformation(n.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.
Transformative(a.) Having power, or a tendency, to transform.
Transformed(imp. & p. p.) of Transform
Transformer(n.) One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
Transforming(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transform
Transformism(n.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
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