trans·form
(trăns-fôrḿ)
[Middle English transformen, from Old French transformer, from Latin trānsfōrmāre, trāns-, trans-, + fōrma, form.]
verb: -formed, -form·ing, -forms.
transitive verb
- To change markedly the appearance or form of: “A thick, fibrous fog had transformed the trees into ghosts and the streetlights into soft, haloed moons” (David Michael Kaplan)
- To change the nature, function, or condition of; convert. See synonyms at convert
- Mathematics To subject to a transformation.
- Electricity To subject to the action of a transformer.
- Genetics To subject (a cell) to transformation.
intransitive verb
- To undergo a transformation.
noun
- The result, especially a mathematical quantity or linguistic construction, of a transformation.
derivatives
- trans·forḿa·ble
- adjective