strengthening vs transformation

strengthening and transformation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
strengthening	Yes	No	No	No
transformation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, transformation is a hypernym of strengthening; that is, transformation is a word with a broader meaning than strengthening:

Other hypernyms of strengthening include shift, transmutation.

strengthening (noun)	transformation (noun)
the act of increasing the strength of something	the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
becoming stronger	(genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA
	a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure
	a qualitative change
	(mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system