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Meaning:

Noun:

  • a marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better
  • politics|South Africa ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink
  • genetics the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic
  • linguistics a rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule
  • 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
  • the act of transforming or the state of being transformed

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