Transfiguration vs. Transformation
Transfigurationnoun
A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
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A change that exalts or glorifies.
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superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.
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(Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
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(New Testament) the sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus
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a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances;
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the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify
Transformationnoun
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
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A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
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(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.
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(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
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(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
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Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
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The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.
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Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
Transformationnoun
Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
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The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.
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A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion.
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The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.
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a qualitative change
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(mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system
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a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure
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(genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA
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the act of changing in form or shape or appearance;
