Transformation vs. Transduction

Transformationnoun

The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.

Transformationnoun

A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.

Transformationnoun

(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.

Transformationnoun

The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.

Transformationnoun

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.

Transformationnoun

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.

Transformationnoun

The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.

Transformationnoun

a qualitative change

Transformationnoun

(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;

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(biology) The transfer of genetic material from one cell to another typically between bacterial cells, and typically via a bacteriophage or pilus.

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The process whereby a transducer converts energy from one form to another.

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(physiology) The conversion of a stimulus from one form to another.

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(physics) The conversion of energy (especially light energy) into another form, especially in a biological process such as photosynthesis or in a transducer.

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(logic) Particularly in the discipline of artificial intelligence, a form of inference, according to which the response appropriate to a particular known case, also is appropriate to another particular case diagnosed to be functionally identical. This contrasts with induction, in which general rules derived from past observations are applied to future cases as a class (compare also analogy).

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(logic design) The improvement of an electronic logic network by reduction of redundant components in an initial version, using an established pruning procedure, then applying permissible functions for transformation of the network into a workable form. Thereafter the transformation and reduction may be repeated till no worthwhile further improvement results.

Transductionnoun

The act of conveying over.

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(genetics) the process of transfering genetic material from one cell to another by a plasmid or bacteriophage

Transductionnoun

the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form;