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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1400|origins=la transformo}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/ ''(UK)''; /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌtɹæns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fro|transformation]] and directly [[bor|la-lat|transformatio|t=change of shape]],^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002)^(NODE 1998) from the past participle stem of [[m|la|transformo|alt=transformāre|t=to change in shape, metamorphose]] (see [[transform]]).^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Change of form, nature or appearance, especially a supernatural one: about 1400 in Etymonline, 1432–50 in the OED.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A complete change of character or condition is from 1581,^(OED 1989) and in mathematics, change of form without change of value, from 1571.^(OED 1989) Change of form in animals, as in insects, is from 1638.^(OED 1989) In the theatre, a ''transformation scene'' that changes before the audience is from 1859.^(OED 1989) An obsolete alternative was ''transformance'' (1610s).^(Etymonline) Later senses include linguistics (transformational grammar) and genetics.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1400 – change of form.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1571 – in mathematics.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1581 – a complete change of character.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1638 – in zoology.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1859 – a transformation scene.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A marked change, as in appearance or character.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(mathematics)'' A change of an expression or of coordinates into an equivalent form.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(genetics)'' The change of a cell's heredity by taking in foreign [[DNA]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[transformative]]

+ * [[transformational]]

+ * [[biotransformation]]

+ * [[retransformation]]

+ * [[transduction]]

+ * [[transformationist]]

+ * [[linear transformation]]

+ * [[Lorentz transformation]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[transform]]

+ * [[form]]

+ * [[metamorphosis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}