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1. Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
   "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture";
   - transmute, transubstantiate
    
2. Subject to a mathematical transformation
    
3. Change in outward structure or looks
   "He transformed into a monster";
   - transmute, metamorphose
    
4. Change from one form or medium into another
   "Braque transformed collage into oil";
   - translate
    
5. (physics) convert (one form of energy) to another
   "transform energy to light"
    
6. (biology) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
    
7. (physics) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)

Derived forms: transformed, transforming, transforms

Type of: alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Transform, clipping, and lighting