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transform
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[ verb ] (mathematics) subject to a mathematical transformation
Used in print (C. R. Wylie, Jr. "Line involutions in S3 whose...)The_most obvious of these is the quadratic complex of tangents to Q , each line of_which is transformed into the entire pencil of lines tangent to Q at the image of the point of tangency of the given line . Thus pencils of tangents to Q are transformed into pencils of tangents . For the lines of any plane , � p , meeting Q in a conic C , are transformed into the congruence of secants of the curve C ' into which C is transformed in the point involution on Q . For the lines of any plane , � p , meeting Q in a conic C , are transformed into the congruence of secants of the curve C ' into which C is transformed in the point involution on Q . In_particular , tangents to C are transformed into tangents to C ' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
Synonyms Examples "This experience transformed her completely" "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture" "transubstantiate one element into another" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Depicted , Cubist flatness is now almost completely assimilated to the literal , undepicted kind , but at_the_same_time it reacts upon and largely transforms the undepicted kind - and it does so , moreover , without depriving the latter of its literalness ; rather , it underpins and reinforces that literalness , re-creates it . Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young_man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot_Sands - he of the porch steps anecdotes - who smoked cigarettes , performed the tango , wore fifty dollar suits , and sneaked_off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them . Related terms change work stalinise destalinise sorcerize transubstantiate transmutation |
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[ verb ] change in outward structure or looks
Synonyms Examples "He transformed into a monster" "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors . |
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[ verb ] change from one form or medium into another
Synonyms Examples "Braque translated collage into oil" Related terms |
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