英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Transformation
(n.)
The act of transforming, or the state of being
transformed; change of form or condition.
Transformation
(n.)
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.
Transformation
(n.)
Change of one from of material into another, as in
assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
Transformation
(n.)
The imagined possible or actual change of one metal
into another; transmutation.
Transformation
(n.)
A change in disposition, heart, character, or the
like; conversion.
Transformation
(n.)
The change, as of an equation or quantity, into
another form without altering the value.
Transformative
(a.)
Having power, or a tendency, to transform.
Transformed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Transform
Transformer
(n.)
One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.),
an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another
current of different voltage.
Transforming
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Transform
Transformism
(n.)
The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have
originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms
of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
Transfreight
(v. i.)
To transfrete.
Transfretation
(n.)
The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
Transfrete
(v. i.)
To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
Transfuge
(n.)
Alt. of Transfugitive
Transfugitive
(n.)
One who flees from one side to another; hence, a
deserter; a turncoat; an apostate.
Transfund
(v. t.)
To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse.
Transfuse
(v. t.)
To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another;
to transfer by pouring.
Transfuse
(v. t.)
To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of
one man or animal to those of another.
Transfuse
(v. t.)
To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be
instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a
man; to transfuse a love of letters.