transformation
- Noun. the act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- Noun. a marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
- Noun. (mathematics) the replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
- Noun. (linguistics) a rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
- Noun. (genetics) the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
- Noun. (context, politics) ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
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