1Make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
‘lasers have transformed cardiac surgery’
‘he wanted to transform himself into a successful businessman’
‘The phenomenon is transforming the nature of technology service, an industry long infamous for being impersonal.’
‘The history of human progress is the history of humankind taking things from nature, and transforming nature for its own benefit.’
‘Program One was about that, and the ways in which that's transforming the nature of war.’
‘Ending war means essentially transforming the nature of the arms export industry.’
‘The promise of eventual membership has transformed the nature of countries as diverse as Poland, Turkey and Romania.’
‘As we affect and transform nature, so we are affected and transformed by nature.’
‘To fashion historians, he's the man who transformed male appearance in the 20th century.’
‘They transformed the appearances of a number of lucky shoppers who had won makeovers and new wardrobes.’
‘Those magic little wands can transform your appearance, giving your eyes a bright, wide-awake look, regardless of whether the rest of your face is au naturel or made up to perfection.’
‘We yearn for the simple life, thinking that being closer to nature will transform us into spiritual, earth-preserving people.’
‘Voluntary effort can transform the appearance of an area and increase the respect that people have for their environment.’
‘There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America - a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.’
‘News of the Revolution of July 1830 in Paris transformed the nature of these mountain protests.’
‘His physical appearance transforms a strong performance into a memorable one.’
‘The hope is that the new material will transform the interior appearance of concrete buildings by making them feel light and airy rather than dark and heavy.’
‘By varying color palettes, patterns and fabrics slipcovers can stylishly transform the appearance of any space.’
‘Consider it a free accessory, that can complete your appearance and transform your look from night to day.’
‘She certainly appears to have transformed the attitude of managers and staff, as well as that of her colleagues on the council.’
‘Cosmetic surgery can easily transform an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan, so it is being put to a new use - that is, to create ‘man-made beauty’.’
‘That will help to transform many GP surgeries up and down the country.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
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.’
‘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.’
noun
1Mathematics Linguistics The product of a transformation.
‘In the bottom portion of the figure, the logarithmic transform of power is presented.’
‘The wavelet transform is designed to produce the best image possible given the bandwidth of the medium of transmission.’
‘A constant uncertainty on a linear scale transforms to a variable uncertainty on a log scale.’
‘In 1935, the Laplace transform was a topic of frontline research, by 1955 it was standard fare in undergraduate courses.’
1.1A rule for making a transformation.
‘Similar questions are investigated for the sine transforms rather than the cosine transforms.’
‘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.’
Origin
Middle English (as a verb): from Old French transformer or Latin transformare(see trans-, form).
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