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[ noun ] a qualitative change
Synonyms Used in print (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)Thus the transformation of Adam_Smith 's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life . (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)A fourth view is the transformation of emotion , as in Housman 's fine phrase on the arts : (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)The student of ideas and their place in history will always be concerned with the patterns of transition , which are at_the_same_time patterns of transformation , whereby ideas pass from one area of activity to another . |
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[ noun ] (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA
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[ noun ] (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system
Related terms function reflection affine_transformation rotation translation mathematics |
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[ noun ] (grammar,linguistics) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure
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[ noun ] the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
Synonyms Examples "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface" |
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