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Synonyms
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 

  1. 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)
  2. To change the nature, function, or condition of; convert. See synonyms at convert
  3. Mathematics To subject to a transformation.
  4. Electricity To subject to the action of a transformer.
  5. 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