Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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transmutation | Yes | No | No | No |
transformation | Yes | No | No | No |
transmutation (noun) | transformation (noun) |
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an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | the act of changing in form or shape or appearance |
a qualitative change | (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA |
(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) | 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 |