Transformation
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A griffin is mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. (from The Stones of Venice )
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
- the act of transforming or the state of being transformed
- a marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better
- 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
- a rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule
- the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic
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