Transformation is birth and death at the same time.
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Transformation
//ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "transformation" (142 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (42)
Related words (71)
metathesismetempsychosismodificationmultiplicationmutantmutated formmutationnaturalizationnotationpassagepermutationpracticeprogressprogressivismproportionradical reformradicalismragre-formationreconversion
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reductionreformreformationreformismregenerationreincarnationresolutionreversalrevisionismrevolutionscenesceneryscreenscrimshiftside scenesportstage screwsubtractionswitchswitch overswitch-overtabtableauteasertormentortransanimationtransfigurementtransformation scenetransformismtransittransitiontranslationtranslocationtransmigrationtranspositiontransubstantiationturning intoutopianismvolte facevolte-facewingwingcutwoodcut
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11 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
40 entriesBogoliubov transformationBogoliubov-Valatin transformationCartesian natural transformationFoldy-Wouthuysen transformationHelmert transformationHjelmslev transformationHolstein-Primakoff transformationHosaka-Cohen transformationLanden's transformationLegendre transformationLorentz transformationMöbius transformationTschirnhaus transformationTschirnhausen transformationTseytin transformationaffine transformation
Showing 16 of 40 words.
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5 entriesis a
9 entriesrelated to
34 entriesShowing 16 of 34 words.
Translations
111 translations across 40 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- omvorming noun (act of transforming)
- transformasie noun (act of transforming)
- vervorming noun (act of transforming)
Arabic
1 entries- تَحَوُّل noun (act of transforming)
Asturian
1 entries- tresformación noun (act of transforming)
Belarusian
3 entries- ператварэ́нне noun (act of transforming)
- пераўтварэ́нне noun (act of transforming)
- трансфарма́цыя noun (act of transforming)
Bulgarian
4 entries- преобразване noun (marked change in appearance or character)
- преобразу́ване noun (act of transforming)
- трансформа́ция noun (act of transforming)
- трансформа́ция noun (state of being transformed)
Catalan
3 entries- transformació noun (act of transforming)
- transformació noun (mathematical term)
- transformació noun (linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 轉型 /转型 noun (act of transforming)
- 轉型 /转型 noun (state of being transformed)
- 轉變 /转变 noun (act of transforming)
- 轉變 /转变 noun (state of being transformed)
Czech
1 entries- proměna noun (act of transforming)
Dutch
2 entries- omvorming noun (act of transforming)
- transformatie noun (act of transforming)
Esperanto
4 entries- aliformiĝo noun (marked change in appearance or character)
- aliiĝo noun (marked change in appearance or character)
- transformado noun (act of transforming)
- transformiĝo noun (marked change in appearance or character)
Estonian
1 entries- teisendus noun (act of transforming)
Finnish
4 entries- muunnos noun (mathematical term)
- muunnos noun (linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another)
- muutos noun (act of transforming)
- muutos noun (marked change in appearance or character)
French
2 entries- transformation noun (act of transforming)
- transformation noun (mathematical term)
Galician
4 entries- transformación noun (act of transforming)
- transformación noun (mathematical term)
- transformación noun (linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another)
- transformación noun (genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA)
Georgian
2 entries- გარდაქმნა noun (act of transforming)
- ტრანსფორმაცია noun (act of transforming)
German
3 entries- Transformation noun (act of transforming)
- Umformung noun (act of transforming)
- Verwandlung noun (act of transforming)
Greek
3 entries- μετασχηματισμός noun (act of transforming)
- μετασχηματισμός noun (mathematical term)
- μετασχηματισμός noun (linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another)
Hindi
1 entries- रूपांतरण noun (mathematical term)
Hungarian
4 entries- alakulás noun (state of being transformed)
- alakítás noun (act of transforming)
- transzformáció noun (linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another)
- átalakulás noun (state of being transformed)
Indonesian
2 entries- transformasi noun (act of transforming)
- transformasi noun (linguistics: rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another)
Japanese
4 entries- 変形 noun (act of transforming)
- 変形 noun (state of being transformed)
- 変換 noun (act of transforming)
- 変換 noun (state of being transformed)
Korean
2 entries- 변형 noun (act of transforming)
- 변환 noun (act of transforming)
Latin
1 entries- mūtātiō noun (act of transforming)
Māori
4 entries- panonitanga noun (act of transforming)
- panonitanga noun (state of being transformed)
- panonitanga noun (marked change in appearance or character)
- panonitanga noun (mathematical term)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- omdanning noun (act of transforming)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- omdanning noun (act of transforming)
Persian
1 entries- تحول noun (act of transforming)
Polish
4 entries- przekształcenie noun (act of transforming)
- przekształcenie noun (mathematical term)
- przemiana noun (act of transforming)
- przemiana noun (marked change in appearance or character)
Portuguese
1 entries- transformação noun (act of transforming)
Romanian
4 entries- mutare noun (genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA)
- mutație noun (genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA)
- transformare noun (act of transforming)
- transformare noun (marked change in appearance or character)
Russian
4 entries- перестро́йка noun (South Africa: ideologically driven government policy)
- преображе́ние noun (marked change in appearance or character)
- преобразова́ние noun (act of transforming)
- преобразова́ние noun (state of being transformed)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- preobražénje noun (act of transforming)
- преображе́ње noun (act of transforming)
Slovak
1 entries- premena noun (act of transforming)
Spanish
1 entries- transformación noun (act of transforming)
Swedish
3 entries- omvandling noun (act of transforming)
- transformation noun (act of transforming)
- transformering noun (act of transforming)
Tagalog
2 entries- pagsasaanyo noun (act of transforming)
- pagtatransporma noun (act of transforming)
Tajik
1 entries- таҳаввул noun (act of transforming)
Turkish
1 entries- başkalaşım noun (genetics: alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA)
Ukrainian
2 entries- перетво́рення noun (act of transforming)
- трансформа́ція noun (act of transforming)
West-Frisian
2 entries- omfoarming noun (act of transforming)
- transformaasje noun (act of transforming)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Neglecting the transformation would mean dropping all the assumptions on which this technique is founded.
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However, as of yet, no one has described the transformation of a cockroach into a human.
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When a transformation has happened, it's not always reversible. However, sometimes a little change makes the transformation backwards possible. Thus, since a change is in this case a transformation as well, there might be needed a transformation to make it possible for the transformation that is the reverse of another transformation to happen.
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