1Make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.

1. 1.1no object Undergo a transformation.
   ‘an automobile that transformed into a boat’
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   • ‘She adjusts her breasts and runs her hand over her hair, as she transforms into her character.’
   • ‘And then, as I get older, it transforms into something else.’
   • ‘This passage explicitly thematizes the way human temporality is experienced as some form of spatial movement - how space transforms into time.’
   • ‘It ought to be a little bit gratifying: Boring, beige-wearing mom transforms into wild rock chick - that's good stuff right there.’
   • ‘A street protest in Washington D.C. transforms into a no-gluten, soy-cheese, all veggie pizza party.’
   • ‘The short film focuses on a businessman who transforms into a drag queen at night.’
   • ‘Just immerse in the world of music, it transforms into a medicine for both physical and mental ailments.’
   • ‘Hence, a trip to the cinema transforms into a full-day activity for the family.’
   • ‘It concludes with how the tenants react to the accident, and how their noise transforms into music.’
   • ‘Somehow she transforms into a siren who transfixes the beasts, literally in the middle of a brawl.’
   • ‘The neglected garden in the back yard was, in a moment, transformed into a junkyard of shattered masonry.’
   • ‘The objects have been carefully arranged, lovingly transformed into what he calls reality art.’
   • ‘In that single moment Susan transformed into a professional gearing up to draw and hold the attention of thousands of viewers.’
   • ‘It was a coming of age, a place where boys transformed into men.’
   • ‘The threats of the past have transformed into agreements of economic, cultural and scientific cooperation.’
   • ‘Then, personal passion or stress is purified and transformed into unselfish compassion.’
   • ‘The Witch is pulled out of the oven, transformed into a big cake.’
   • ‘Staff say the scheme is already proving a success with one troubled child now transformed into a model pupil who has won school awards.’
   • ‘Gradually this captivating dancer transformed into multiple savage creatures.’
   • ‘At the end of that movie we find him transformed into adult, at last ready to try to make a difference.’
   Synonyms

   change, alter, modify, convert, metamorphose, transfigure, transmute, mutate

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2. 1.2Change the voltage of (an electric current).
   ‘Those receive their 11,000 volt current underground and then transform it to a voltage suitable for the domestic consumers in just one or two roads or streets.’
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   • ‘The wind plant captures and transforms wind energy into direct current electricity.’
   • ‘There the signal is passed through the skin to the implant, which transforms the signal to electrical pulses.’
   • ‘A ½ x ½ inch ceramic battery can transform body heat into electrical power.’
   • ‘I used a power stepper to transform the frequency and also to down the voltage from 240v to 110v.’
3. 1.3Mathematics Change (a mathematical entity) by transformation.
   ‘He replaced the differential operator d/dx by a variable p transforming a differential equation into an algebraic equation.’
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   • ‘Variables were transformed with natural logarithms or square roots to normalize residuals.’
   • ‘He used them to transform Laplace's equation into ellipsoidal coordinates and so separate the variables and solve the resulting equation.’
   • ‘Percentage of emergence was transformed to arcsin square root.’
   • ‘All variables used in this study were transformed to natural logarithms before the correlation analyses were performed.’

1Mathematics Linguistics
The product of a transformation.

1. 1.1A rule for making a transformation.
   ‘Similar questions are investigated for the sine transforms rather than the cosine transforms.’
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   • ‘Aleksandrov further developed the integral transform method and used asymptotic methods to solve the problem for a finite thickness layer.’
   • ‘The transformation rules may comprise both causal hypotheses and modal transforms.’
   • ‘Bateman's method was the now familiar one of applying the complex inversion formula of the Laplace transform.’
   • ‘Some readers will of course scream that refactoring has a prescribed set of transforms, many of which are described in great detail in this book.’