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Transformer
//tɹænsˈfɔɹmɚ// noun
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Noun
- 1 Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
- 2 A toy in the Transformers toyline which has mechanical parts that allow it to be altered in appearance from its original form as a humanoid robot action figure to another form, usually a vehicle, depending on the toy.
- 3 an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage wordnet
- 4 A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.
"While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr. McGee said there was no fire, and there were no transformers involved."
- 5 In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically alter their appearance, or "transform", into a vehicle, creature, or (rarely) a tool.
"“It's like a Transformer today,” Stamm said. “It appears as one thing, then becomes another.”"
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- 6 A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.
"Transformer is a deep machine learning model based on the encoder–decoder network architecture and is used primarily in the field of NLP."
- 7 Alternative letter-case form of Transformer. alt-of
Etymology
Etymology 1
From transform + -er.
Etymology 2
From transformer (something that transforms).
See also for "transformer"
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