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Transformation \Trans`for*ma"tion\, n. [L. transformatio: cf.
transformation.]
The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed;
change of form or condition. Specifically:
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(a) (Biol.) 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}.
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(b) (Physiol.) Change of one from of material into another,
as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
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(c) (Alchemy) The imagined possible or actual change of one
metal into another; transmutation.
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(d) (Theol.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or
the like; conversion.
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(e) (Math.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into
another form without altering the value.
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